surveillance

Questions about surveillance

What is the opposite of surveillance?

WordNet records no antonym for surveillance. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for surveillance come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of surveillance

• Full entry for surveillanceAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for surveillanceWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.