Associations to the word «Panopticon»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
PANOPTICON, noun. A type of prison designed by philosopher Jeremy Bentham wherein all the cells are visible from the center of the building. It engenders the feeling that someone is watching you, even though you know the contrary.
PANOPTICON, noun. A room for the exhibition of novelties.
Dictionary definition
PANOPTICON, noun. An area where everything is visible.
PANOPTICON, noun. A circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.