panopticon
noun/pəˈnɒptɪkɒn/UK/pəˈnɑptɪˌkɑn/US
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ὀπτικός (optikós, “visible”). Coined by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1787.
Definitions
A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is…
A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
- He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.
A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.
- Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. But I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.
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A room for the exhibition of novelties.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for panopticon. 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