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meatspace

noun

Etymology

From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag.

  1. derived from *(s)peh₂-✻
  2. derived from spatium
  3. derived from space
  4. inherited from space
  5. compounded as meatspace — “meat + space”

Definitions

  1. The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.

    • In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.
    • The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for meatspace. 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