Definitions for panopticon

panopticon pan·op·ti·con

Spelling: [pan-op-ti-kon]
IPA: /pænˈɒp tɪˌkɒn/

Panopticon is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 325 anagrams from letters in panopticon (acinnooppt).

Definitions for panopticon

noun

  1. a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.

Origin of panopticon

1760-70; pan- + Greek optikón sight, seeing (neuter of optikós; see optic)

Examples for panopticon

During this period Bentham was also occupied with the panopticon, and some writings refer to it.

The panopticon, as defined by its inventor to Brissot, was a 'mill for grinding rogues honest, and idle men industrious.'

He spent 16 years of his mostly 18th century life designing the panopticon, which was to be the ideal disciplinary institution.

How have we gotten so comfortable with the panopticon state in little more than a decade?

A long correspondence upon the acquisition of the 'panopticon' land is included.

It had struck him that an application of his panopticon would give the required panacea.

Had any other king been on the throne, panopticon in both 'the prisoner branch and the pauper branch' would have been set at work.

Meanwhile Bentham, meditating profoundly upon the panopticon, had at last found out that he had begun at the wrong end.

The panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel.

The panopticon is usually considered an abstract idea, but in fact I lived in one.

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