Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Including everything visible in one view.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Seeing everything or seeing all things at once.
- Showing or exhibiting everything; allowing everything to be seen.
Wiktionary
- adj. All-seeing; comprehensive, inclusive.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Including everying visible in one view.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. including everything visible in one view
- adj. broad in scope or content
Etymologies
- From pan- + optic. (Wiktionary)
- From Greek panoptos, fully visible : pan-, with respect to everything, fully; see pan- + optos, visible; see okw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It seemed like I could never get that kind of panoptic knowledge.”
“This would solve many problems, e.g. the so-called panoptic provider, uncontrollable diffusion of private information to 3rd parties, security and data protection (also by encryption), property and data re-use.”
“Thanks in part to our panoptic media culture, which includes the 24/7 cable news cycle, we've become far too eager to play the gotcha game anytime somebody says something mildly stupid, typically assigning more value to it than necessary.”
The Huffington Post: Chez Pazienza: Kudlow & Dudley: Speaking Their Minds?
“The force of the Harry Potter cycle lies, as with Wagner, not so much in the originality of its subject matter as in the execution of a panoptic vision across a great span of time.”
“Mr. Levine's sensitive curatorship is well illustrated by the panoptic sweep of temperament that has flourished under his baton: from the turbulence of Kathleen Battle, Catherine Malfitano and Samuel Ramey to the bankable serenity of Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson and James Morris.”
“Snow-laced massifs vault into a dark-blue sky and green hills cascade to the valleys below, a panoptic of edelweiss and immortality.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Coolest Ferrari Ever—Drive Carefully
“But Mr. Sebag Montefiore's book is the city's first "biography"—a panoptic narrative of its rulers and citizens, heroes and villains, harlots and saints.”
“And I got news for you: Everybody hates Mickey Kaus; everybody hates the “call them as I see them from the Olympian cynicism and disdain of my superior panoptic view of dialectical reality” thing.”
“The show, focused on art that addresses "our panoptic era," includes Tris Vonna-Michell, Jordan Wolfson, and Cory Arcangel.”
The Huffington Post: ARTINFO: In New York: Gallery Openings This Weekend
“I met him late one afternoon in what was once the downstairs bar of the Hôtel du Pont Royal where I was in the habit of making dates I wanted to remain outside the Grasset publishing house panoptic, held 24 hours a day or nearly that at the Twickenham, a bar that no longer exists, once at the corner of the rue des Saints-Pères and the rue de Grenelle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘panoptic’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
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Loxodont's list
circumambulate, atelectasis, paramount, therefore, apotropaic, facture, identity, dome, lecture, cannibal, catatonia, rite and 119 more...
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researchgirl's Words
palpable, vade mecum, penumbra, ephemera, esoteric, quirky, quintessential, aphorism, amnesia, insomnia, synesthesia, apostasy and 186 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1691 more...
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presta's Words
irascible, marsupial, falafel, hydrogenated, gadabout, fennel, antediluvian, disinterested, kraken, panoptic, pilloried, propensity and 7 more...
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College Encounters
College makes me learn new words. Sometimes. Or else look them up and promptly forget about them.
Studying art and social & political theory. So these words are generally related to on...coeval, hegemony, reify, atavism, reticent, imbricate, itinerant, quotidian, ontology, adjudicate, interpellate, alterity and 62 more...
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Balsamic's Words
vignette, itinerant, maladies, hagiographic, dour, ethereal, credence, solemnity, provenance, vestigial, dissonance, melancholia and 221 more...
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Contemporary Communication Theory
pluralism, epistemology, aphorism, maxim, conation, dystopia, typology, pedagogy, positivism, modernism, polysemic, panoptic and 36 more...
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Unitegration
Wholeness.
agathocacological, subsume, commix, milieu, comity, multivious, symphily, sobornost, myselves, coalescence, conglomerat, amalgam and 75 more...
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