dystopia

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The looking-glass image of utopia -- dystopia -- has provided more numerous additions to the English lexicon.

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  1. noun An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
  2. noun A work describing such a place or state: "dystopias such as Brave New World” (Times Literary Supplement).

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  • The looking-glass image of utopia -- dystopia -- has provided more numerous additions to the English lexicon. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
  • The corporate dystopia is a traditional theme in SF. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • I recently learned a fancy word that describes my world: dystopia, which is the opposite of utopia. —  Devil'sBargain
  • As the colony is revealed to be an oppressive dystopia, a teenager named Takeru stumbles across a strange photograph of a girl on Earth. —  High-Def Digest: HD DVD Disc News
  • Halahala can be called a dystopia, but Appupen refuses to tag his creation .. —  Top Headlines
 

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  1. dys- + (u)topia.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek δυσ-, hard, + τόπος, place.
 

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/dɪsˈtoʊpiə/
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