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The answer PANOPTIC has 3 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of panoptic in various dictionaries:
adj - including everything visible in one view
adj - broad in scope or content
Including everything visible in one view.
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Comprehensive, as a view |
All-seeing God Christian not at first supporting |
Viewing all aspects brings alarm -- choose to hide |
Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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Sep 1 2011 The Telegraph - Toughie |
Feb 17 2010 Universal |
Dec 27 2002 The Times - Cryptic |
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Including everything visible in one view. |
including everything visible in one view |
broad in scope or content |
Panoptic might refer to |
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The Panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The scheme of the design is to allow all (pan-) inmates of an institution to be observed (-opticon) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched. Although it is physically impossible for the single watchman to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times. Thus, they are effectively compelled to regulate their own behaviour. The name may also allude to the many-eyed giant Panoptes in Greek mythology, some of whose eyes were always awake, making him a highly effective watchman. * The design consists of a circular structure with an "inspection house" at its centre, from which the manager or staff of the institution is able to watch the inmates. The inmates, who are stationed around the perimeter of the structure, are unable to see into the inspection house. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums, but he devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a Panopticon prison. It is his prison that is now most widely meant by the term "panopticon". * Bentham described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example". Elsewhere, in a letter, he described the Panopticon prison as "a mill for grinding rogues honest". |