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antisurveillance

noun

Etymology

From anti- + surveillance.

  1. derived from vigilō
  2. prefixed as antisurveillance — “anti + surveillance”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of countersurveillance.

    • Conduct antisurveillance: survey your surroundings to be sure no one is surveilling you.
    • Looking around is an act of antisurveillance: it's a simple precaution that can put off a criminal because he sees you are aware and therefore not soft.

  2. Against surveillance.

    • They're not against technology per se but they're very antisurveillance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antisurveillance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA