Overton window

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Beliefs and thought

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The key to the concept is that the window changes over time; it can shift, shrink, or expand.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Overton window”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Hydrargyrum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.