dystopia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an imagined society in which oppressive rule or miserable living conditions make life deeply undesirable

   The fictional society is a dystopia, where surveillance and brutal repression make daily life miserable.

Simplified etymology

Dystopia was formed in the late 18th century from Greek dus-, “bad,” and the place element seen in utopia. It names an imagined place where everything is as bad as possible and was coined as the conceptual opposite of a utopia.

Formed from dys-, meaning bad, and -topia, from Greek topos, meaning place, on the model of utopia.

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