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Utopia
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- 1 A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony. countable, uncountable
"Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of utopia. alt-of, countable, uncountable
"Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best critics—at once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation. Perhaps in Utopia they will take the reviewer’s business entirely off our hands, as they are said to be doing already, by the by, in one leading periodical."
- 3 an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal wordnet
- 4 a work of fiction describing a utopia wordnet
- 5 ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects wordnet
Etymology
From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.
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