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Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek οὐ (ou) Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) New Latin Ūtopiader. English utopia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English utopic From utopia + -ic.

Meanings

1. Seeming to originate in utopia; utopian
   • … and those issues and the potentialities out of which they arise are such as would to any previous age, could it have so much as conceived them, have seemed the distant problems of utopic speculation. 1919, Robert Briffault, The Making of Humanity, G. Allen & Unwin ltd., pg. 247
   • By contrast, in the utopic vision of Hilton and Capra it is space which is traversed and not time; both utopic and dystopic exist in the same moment but occupy a different terrain. 2000, Tom Brass, Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth, Routledge, →ISBN, page 243:
   • It would be so much easier if homosexuality were accepted — period. "Coming out," that life-long process of letting people know that you are a certain way, and that you're upset by their homophobic actions, would not have to occur. Of course I'm speaking in utopic terms; this won't happen for a long time, if ever. 1986 August 16, Dan Kaufman, “Confused at 18: A Friend's Advice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 11:
   • They dismissed the work as utopic, unpractical. 1850, Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga (L. Mariotti), Scenes from Italian life, pg. 133

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Deriveds

libertopic