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Utopia

Utopia

15 7.9
An imagined perfect place where people live together happily
  • noun
  • /juːˈtoʊpiə/
translation icon : utopía
  • In her novel, she imagines a utopia where poverty and war no longer exist.

We're going to get to this beautiful utopia where we're all equal, right?

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Examples

  • We're going to get to this beautiful utopia where we're all equal, right?

  • Israel, after all, was originally conceived of as a collectivist utopia, at least by the International Left.

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  • I think a lot of people think that you can just describe this utopia that you want.

  • In utopia, we will never have conflict.

  • What we have to find is not peace or utopia, is harmony.

  • Tell me, of all the institutions your utopia will preserve, which is the most important to you?

  • Because the Marxist idea is that there is indeed a utopia we can build.

  • This is a vision of a shimmering utopia where we shall all spend the rest of our lives.

  • It's always going to be only dystopia or utopia, but we really prefer to stay much more hopeful.

  • Viva found this old, abandoned Bergen golf course and transformed it into this troll utopia.

Synonyms

paradise
vsUtopia
192 4.0

A place or state of perfect happiness and peace

emphasizes full perfection of everything rather than only emotional well being
Shangri-la
vsUtopia
  • Literature
7 9.8

An imaginary perfect, peaceful place where people feel very happy and safe

is the general imagined perfect state rather than a specific legendary haven
nirvana
vsUtopia
5 7.9

A very peaceful happy state with no worry or pain

is the imagined perfect place focused on total perfection rather than release
fantasyland
vsUtopia
3 6.1

An imaginary place where everything is perfect and magical

is an imagined perfect state idea, not necessarily magical or childish
never-never land
vsUtopia
  • Literature
2 8.8

A made-up perfect place that exists only in dreams

is about an ideal imagined state without implying it cannot be reached
2 4.2

A very beautiful place where people feel happy and peaceful

is an imagined perfect place, not necessarily physically located on earth
earthly paradise
vsUtopia
1 5.8

A beautiful peaceful place on earth that seems perfect

is the imagined perfect state without implying it is physically present
Eden
vsUtopia
1 6.8

A place or state that has great happiness and peace

is the imagined perfect state generally, not only a common metaphor
Zion
vsUtopia
  • Literature
8.1

An imagined perfect place where everything is good

is the general imagined perfect idea not especially tied to spiritual symbols
Sion
vsUtopia
  • Archaic
9.9

An imagined perfect place where people live in peace and happiness

is the broad imagined state itself rather than a symbolic, sacred place
Elysium
vsUtopia
  • Literature
9.9

A perfect place or state of great happiness

focuses on total perfection of everything rather than only happiness

How Ideal

heaven
237 1.0
paradise
192 4.0
Sion
  • Archaic
9.9
Utopia
15 7.9
happy place
  • Informal
15 3.9

Surface Forms

Utopia singular
Utopias plural

Etymology

Utopia comes from Greek ou- 'not' and topos 'place', so it literally means 'no place'. Because it also sounds like Greek eu- 'good', a helpful way to remember Utopia is as a 'good place' that is only imagined, which is why we use it for a perfect but unrealistic place.