Hi folks, I'm new here. I think that our language would benefit from a word describing a situation of forcing one to lie. Frequently in life, an otherwise honest person is pressured into being untruthful for one's (perceived) safety or well-being, something like: don't ask / don't tell. What might be an adjective to describe this kind of entrapment?
Lying is medacity, so could this be mendaxogenic?
Dysfunctional parenting has sometimes been called psychogenic or (falsely) schizophrenogenic, meaning to give rise to another's becoming psychotic. How about a little less severe, and only to another's lying? A kind of meta-gaslighting?
Is there a word for mendaxogenics, mendaxophilia or mendaxophobia (fear of lying)?
Confabulation is a psychiatric term for compulsive telling of stories.
Confabulogenics?
Awaiting your reply, in truth,
Richard
