Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cyberviolence

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cy-bervi-o-lence
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Violence, or its equivalent, carried out in cyberspace or on the Internet.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"At one end of the spectrum of cyberviolence lies hate speech, which tends to impact upon specific social, political or religious groups."
"Cybercrime often involves cyberviolence that puts the personal safety of citizens at risk through, for example, the manipulation of the emotions..."
"At the core of rape, domestic violence, pedophilia, cyberviolence, and other interactions, one discovers precisely a way of being that is grounded in domination and reduces others simply to objects."
"...threats of personal violence, actual acts of cyberviolence (spamming those making the assertions)..."

Etymology

From cyber- + violence.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: cyber

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does cyberviolence mean?: Violence, or its equivalent, carried out in cyberspace or on the Internet.
Where does cyberviolence come from?: From cyber- + violence.

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