seasteading means The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SEASTEADING — [Noun] The creation of permanent, autonomous dwellings at sea, especially in international waters outside any national jurisdiction. A blend of sea (from Old English sæ, "large body of water") and homesteading (from homestead, "a house and its adjoining land, especially as occupied by a family"), coined in a 1969 U.S. commission report. Unlike offshore living, which remains tethered to a nation's legal tendrils, or colonization, which imposes dominion upon terra firma, seasteading is the libertarian dream of crafting sovereignty from the waves. It is the modular platform anchored beyond the shelf, the hum of desalination pumps mingling with the cetacean chorus, and the vertigo of a horizon unbroken by any law but physics—a floating manifesto written on the only surface that cannot hold an imprint.
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- The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.“The territorial sea offers a new realm for individual and small business enterprises. The Commission recommends an experimental program to encourage new uses of the ocean through State leases of submarine areas within U.S. territorial waters. Such a program might be called "seasteading."”