Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as heterotopy.
- n. In ophthalmol., strabismus or squint.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology Normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body
- n. ecology The occurrence of an organism in a number of different habitats
- n. philosophy A type of utopia that actually exists in a society
Etymologies
- hetero- + -topia (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I threw around words like "heterotopia," "panopticon" and "hegemony" with aplomb; I was about ten times smarter in that blog than I am here, where my voice tends to be a bit”
“The word that I came away from her reading is heterachronia–a multitude of times–similar to heterotopia, which means a multitude of places.”
“I call one group of them climbing up heterotopia to AdS/CFT.”
“If I had to look for differences, I guess, among the interesting distinctions are that whereas Focault sees the heterotopia as a site of potential political resistance at least that is how his comments are read today by many, Huizinga sees the play space as separate and transcendent -- autotelic as Bernard Suits might say.”
“I have just written a paper for a discourse and culture conference which LINKS the notions of the magic circle and heterotopia.”
“And whereas Foucault sees the heterotopia as reflecting, inverting, and interpenetrating dominant spaces, Huizinga sees play spaces as more dependent on boundaries and the independent creation of a new social order.”
“Personally, I'd like to see a paper contrasting Huizinga's magic circle with Foucault's notion of the heterotopia.”
“Opening Reception: heterotopia sites of culture represented, contested and inverted my current Sales Practices Manual tells me I am not to be engaged in blogging activity”
REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio
“For me Sir Toby's was a heterotopia that offers "tantalizing possibility" only if it veers into its own fragile realm between serious theology and the play of the imagination.”
“Congratulations, Shiert, you've passed through the portal and entered into the heterotopia poised between fact and fiction.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heterotopia’.
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
topias
Aristopia, Caltopia, photopia, scotopia, dystopia, heterotopia, ectopia, onychoheterotopia, trachymene incisa, splenectopia, tarsectopia, syndesmectopia and 2 more...
-
Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
-
bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
-
Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 320 more...
-
Inspiring eloquence
peripatetic, prevaricate, contrapuntal, defenestration, incontrovertible, facetious, curmudgeonly, assuaged, dichotomy, peccadillos, monopsony, coda and 146 more...
-
rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
-
College Encounters
College makes me learn new words. Sometimes. Or else look them up and promptly forget about them.
Studying art and social & political theory. So these words are generally related to on...coeval, hegemony, reify, atavism, reticent, imbricate, itinerant, quotidian, ontology, adjudicate, interpellate, alterity and 62 more...
-
Words I Had to Look Up
Words whose definitions or spellings I didn't know at first glance go here.
rogation, asthenosphere, imprecation, glossus, rhodomontade, aptronym, bacronym, capitonym, exonym, heteronym, oronym, retronym and 51 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for heterotopia.
theungratefulbiped Also a philosophical concept theorized by Michel Foucault. It refers to real places which are "something like counter-‐sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality." (from his essay, "Of Other Places") Examples of heterotopias, from the same essay: cemeteries, ships, museums, libraries, brothels, and colonies. May 7, 2013
reesetee Haha! You slay yourself, u! :-D Jul 9, 2007
uselessness I'm sure there's an equivalent, somewhere... over the rainbow? :-P Jul 9, 2007
reesetee Sez you. ;-) Jul 9, 2007
uselessness I vote for the expected definition. Sounds like a fun place. ;-) Jul 9, 2007
seanahan I wouldn't have guessed that either, but when looking at the pronunciation it is completely different than what I would have expected. Jul 9, 2007
jay.dugger I wouldn't have guessed this word meant tissue out of place. Jul 9, 2007