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panvasive

panvasive adjective: massively invasive on a large scale.

Adjective

panvasive (comparative more panvasive, superlative most panvasive)

  1. (neologism) Massively invasive on a large scale.
    • I suggest that we now face the moment in history when the elemental right to the future tense is endangered by a panvasive digital architecture of behavior modification owned and operated by surveillance capital, necessitated by its economic imperatives, and driven by its laws of motion, all for...2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
    • He argues these panvasive activities look more like what administrative agencies do than the stuff of traditional order maintenance policing, and they should be governed accordingly.2021, Rachel Harmon, The Law of the Police, Aspen Publishing, →ISBN, page 516

Forms of panvasive

comparativemore panvasive
superlativemost panvasive

Origin of panvasive

Blend of pan- + pervasive + invasive, coined by American law professor Christopher Slobogin in 2013.

Questions about panvasive

What does panvasive mean?
Panvasive means massively invasive on a large scale.
What part of speech is panvasive?
Panvasive is an adjective.

Words near panvasive in the dictionary

  1. panurids
  2. panus
  3. panuveitis
  4. panvasculopathies
  5. panvasculopathy
  6. panvasive
  7. Panvel
  8. panviral
  9. panvitalism
  10. panvitalist
  11. panvitalistic

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