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panopticism

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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