Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

panopticism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: panop-ti-cism
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario."
"The goal of police panopticism is to minimize the severe costs of managing the police by leveraging data-driven surveillance from multiple institutional points and actors."
"Today's panopticism (in the West, at least) hasn't had anything like this effect, as Angwin notes, because it can be quite crude in displaying its own invasive footprints: You shop for cameras online, and then find yourself haunted for weeks by camera ads each time you visit a new website."

Etymology

From panoptic + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: panoptic

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does panopticism mean?: The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness.
Where does panopticism come from?: From panoptic + -ism.

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