Orwell, George — Nineteen eighty-four [313]

It was assumed that when he was not working, eating or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreation: to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity. — Orwell, George, Nineteen eighty-four, 313

Note

Ownlife — a single coined compound that already performs the surveillance logic it names, collapsing a private category of existence into a criminal label. The sentence structure mirrors the ideology: the descriptive clause about communal recreation gives way to the word that forbids its opposite.