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guiltware

noun

Etymology

From guilt + -ware.

  1. derived from *geldaną✻
  2. derived from *geldan✻
  3. derived from *guldijā✻
  4. inherited from gylt — “guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”
  5. inherited from gilt
  6. formed as guiltware — “guilt + -ware”

Definitions

  1. Software that attempts to convince the user to fulfil some obligation (such as…

    Software that attempts to convince the user to fulfil some obligation (such as registration or donation to a charity) by eliciting feelings of guilt.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for guiltware. 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