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funishments

funishments is the plural of funishment.

Meaning of funishment

Noun

funishment (countable and uncountable, plural funishments)

  1. (uncountable) A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.
    • I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating.2013, Gregg D. Caruso, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, page 107
  2. A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.
    • […] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play.2014, Raven Kaldera, Sabrina Popp, Unequal By Design: Counseling Power Dynamic Relationships

Questions about funishments

What is funishments the plural of?
Funishments is the plural of funishment.

Words near funishments in the dictionary

  1. funipendulous
  2. funipuncture
  3. funis
  4. Funish
  5. funishment
  6. funishments
  7. funisitis
  8. Funj
  9. funjee
  10. funji
  11. Funjistan

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