biopower
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.53 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The third type of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies."