minispectacle

noun

minispectacle

noun

Etymology From mini- + spectacle.

1

A minor, small-scale spectacle (impressive event).

But by bombarding users with distorted and deracinated images, the Internet instead just forces us to confront increasingly bizarre minispectacles, often right when were most vulnerable — alone, anxious, looking for answers.2007 December 16, Virginia Heffernan, “Haunted Mouses”, in New York Times:

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