mindfuck

mindfuck

1 9.9

A confusing, shocking experience that makes you doubt what is real

noun
/maɪndfʌk/

Offensive

: ida de olla

After watching the documentary, I realized it was a mindfuck that challenged my beliefs.

Examples

It's such a mindfuck when a guy does the whole "it's not you, it's me" thing because you want to believe it but you know you can't.

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The endless mindfuck.

Assassination Nation (2018)
It's a mindfuck to see it happening from the outside.

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Interesting mindfuck there at the end, but everything is true even if it's not.
Here's a mindfuck for you.

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I love it because I was following his blog way back when he started to think that his fans were fodder for his twisted beliefs, and his blog became some kind of Scott Adams mindfuck experiment.

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The movie was a total mindfuck, leaving everyone confused about what was real.
Reading that novel was quite the mindfuck; I struggled to grasp the plot twists.

Antonyms

stability

283 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

clarity

181 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

How Confusing

mindfuck

Offensive

1 9.9

confusion

351 1.8

head-scratcher

Informal

4 7.7

Surface Forms

mindfuck singular

mindfucks plural

Morphology

mindfuck = mind + fuck (semi-transparent) = mind + fuck

The components 'mind' and the vulgar verb 'fuck' (used here as 'mess with' or intensifier) yield the figurative slang meaning, but the idiomatic and vulgar nature may not be obvious to average learners.

Etymology

Mindfuck is made from mind ('thoughts' or 'thinking') and fuck (a strong word that means 'to mess up' or 'to shock'). So a mindfuck is something that 'messes up' your thinking and leaves you confused or very shocked.