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superveillance

noun
/ˌsupɚˈveɪ.ləns/US/ˌs(j)uːpəˈveɪ.ləns/UK

Etymology

Blend of supervision + surveillance.

  1. derived from vigilō
  2. compounded as superveillance — “supervision + surveillance”

Definitions

  1. Supervision taken too far, bordering on surveillance.

    • There are now about 1400 police stations in the country, each having under its superveillance an average area of about 14,000 stature acres.
    • It could be further mentioned that bourgeois individualist civil society need the fallback of an authoritarian state with a high degree of superveillance to sustain the power relations intrinsic to it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for superveillance. 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