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unutopia en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + utopia.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The antithesis of utopia; anti-utopia; dystopia.
   • But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that. 1978, The Spectator, volume 240, number 1, page 25:
   • The unutopia was bizarrely unutopianly a thing, antiutopianly. Disutopianism. 2013, Jason Hurlburt, ALLA NAZIMOVA IN GOOGOLPLEXNAIRE, page 78:
   • The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area had received $4 million from the Bureau of Public Roads, with which they had done a transportation study which of course produces a Utopia for automobiles, which is unutopia for human beings. 1970, National transportation act, page 219:
   • In the following excerpt, Keefer places A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder within the context of Canadian Maritime fiction, focusing on the narrative as an "unutopia" that questions the value of idealistic spiritual and political philosophies. 2003, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, volume 1213, page 112:

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