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English
Etymology
Blend of fun + punishment.
Pronunciation
Noun
funishment (countable and uncountable, plural funishments)
- (ethics, uncountable) A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.
2013, Gregg D. Caruso, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, page 107: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.
2014, Derk Pereboom, Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life, page 172:Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping.
- (BDSM, countable, uncountable) A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.
2014, Raven Kaldera, Sabrina Popp, Unequal By Design: Counseling Power Dynamic Relationships:[…] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play.
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