Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Including everything visible in one view.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Seeing everything or seeing all things at once.
- Showing or exhibiting everything; allowing everything to be seen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Including everying visible in one view.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective All-seeing; comprehensive, inclusive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective including everything visible in one view
- adjective broad in scope or content
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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It seemed like I could never get that kind of panoptic knowledge.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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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.
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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.
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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.
How Harry Saved Reading Norman Lebrecht 2011
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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.
City of Peace—and War Norman Lebrecht 2011
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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.
Chez Pazienza: Kudlow & Dudley: Speaking Their Minds? Chez Pazienza 2011
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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.
The Met's Rock of Ages Norman Lebrecht 2011
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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.
Chez Pazienza: Kudlow & Dudley: Speaking Their Minds? Chez Pazienza 2011
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Snow-laced massifs vault into a dark-blue sky and green hills cascade to the valleys below, a panoptic of edelweiss and immortality.
The Coolest Ferrari Ever—Drive Carefully Dan Neil 2011
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The show, focused on art that addresses "our panoptic era," includes Tris Vonna-Michell, Jordan Wolfson, and Cory Arcangel.
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