Word.ws English Dictionary

Overton windows

Overton windows is the plural of Overton window.

Meaning of Overton window

Noun

Overton window (plural Overton windows)

  1. The range of ideas that the public will accept, i.e. those ideas that are not considered too extreme or radical.
    • Nor is he the only one of his kind—on all sides of the spectrum, there are individuals like Mike, shaping what we read, setting the Overton Window in our political debate, stirring things up and laughing (and profiting) as we freak out about it.2012, Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, Penguin, →ISBN, page 258
    Synonyms:
    window of discourse, opinion corridor

Questions about Overton windows

What is Overton windows the plural of?
Overton windows is the plural of Overton window.

Words near Overton windows in the dictionary

  1. overtoils
  2. overtold
  3. Overton
  4. Overton County
  5. Overton window
  6. Overton windows
  7. overtone
  8. overtone singing
  9. overtoned
  10. overtones
  11. overtoning

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Overton windows (page history and authors); Overton window (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Overton windows.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overton_windows. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.