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dystopia

[dis-toh-pee-uh]

noun

  1. a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.



dystopia

/ ɪˈəʊɪə /

noun

  1. an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • dystopian adjective
  • dystopianism noun
  • ˈٴDZ辱 adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dystopia1

First recorded in 1865–70; dys- + (U)topia
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dystopia1

C19 (coined by John Stuart Mill ): from dys- + Utopia
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“Dystopian” TV may seem ubiquitous, but not all dystopias look the same.

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In our modern dystopia, fire and brimstone have been replaced by ones and zeroes.

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If there was a year of imagined American dystopia, it was 1934, when the next three novels were written or published.

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In this particular dystopia, civilization has crumbled into a desertscape ruled by petty warlords and scavenger gangs.

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Naomi Alderman’s new dystopia, ‘The Future,’ finds a new way into the genre she mastered in ‘The Power’: a battle royal of preppers, tech billionaires and cults.

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