“Orwellian” describes the work of English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell, specifically pertaining to the chilling dystopian society he depicted in his 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-four. Set in an imaginary future in which the world is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states, the book introduced such concepts as Big Brother and the Thought Police, which became bywords for modern social and political abuses.
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