funishment
/ˈfʌnɪʃmənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.
Uncountable
noun
A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating."
- "Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping."
- "If constraint, no matter how minimal, involves an adverse element that is undeserved punishment, quarantine advocates must provide, in [Saul] Smilansky's words, compensatory “funishment.”"
- "[…] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfʌnɪʃmənt/
- British English: /ˈfʌnɪʃmənt/