utopia
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- noun
- /juˈtoʊpiə/
:
utopía
- Throughout human history, people have tried to create utopia, the perfect society.
- socialist utopia
- communist utopia
- human utopia
In that model, the opposite of utopia is dystopia.
- In that model, the opposite of utopia is dystopia.
- So can you intuit why utopias fail as as systems?
- So Abraham has the socialist utopia at hand.
- No, the utopia is a dream.
- Burn it all down, and then we'll build utopia, for lack of a better word, in its place.
- There was a study done where these scientists tried to grow, try to create utopia, this perfect garden.
- If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia.
- It's not a mythological society, it's not a philosophical utopia.
- People have to do what they're told and you end up using coercion and force to try to make the utopia work.
- And then from six to seven, you have the option of staying for the lab session, which has been described in anticipation as a social utopia.
- And a lot of people on the left tend to compare things to utopia, whereas more people on the right tend to compare things to history and to the rest of the world.
Examples
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I see his goal of harmonious integration of all people within society as a utopia.
Academic text (1998) -
For centuries, we have been without a home, but I found utopia.
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So in my utopia, there would be a lot more guidance.
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Look, we'll never live in a utopia.
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They turned it into a dream of a new utopia.
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Iceland could become a new utopia.
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It's a consumer utopia, but that means a lot of established businesses are going to fail and that's very scary.
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Rushing ahead toward utopia can only lead to ultimate despair and eventual inaction.
Academic text (1995) -
New York City is represented as a utopia of self-expression and queer embodiment.
Academic text (2017) -
Many authors have envisioned their own interpretations of utopia, showcasing ideal societies in their stories.
Synonyms
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1.0
A very happy and peaceful state
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4.0
A place or state of perfect happiness and peace
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9.8
An imaginary perfect, peaceful place where people feel very happy and safe
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7.9
A very peaceful happy state with no worry or pain
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6.1
An imaginary place where everything is perfect and magical
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8.8
A made-up perfect place that exists only in dreams
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4.2
A very beautiful place where people feel happy and peaceful
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7.7
A perfect idea of the future that is unlikely to happen
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5.8
A beautiful peaceful place on earth that seems perfect
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A place or state that has great happiness and peace
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An imagined peaceful place in nature where people live simply and happily
A perfect place or state of great happiness
A beautiful city in Heaven that good people go to after they die
Antonyms
- Literature
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A society where life is very bad because people suffer and have little freedom
How Ideal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Utopia comes from the Greek parts ou ('not') and topos ('place'), so it literally meant 'no place' — a land that does not exist. The writer Thomas More used it for a perfect society and it also plays on the Greek eu ('good'), so utopia now means an imagined perfect place or state.