Definitions
Etymologies
- Portmanteau of utopia and opiate. The noun usage was coined by Richard H. Blum of Stanford University in 1964. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This conservative is tired of being the tax collector for progressive lunatic utopiate wet dreams.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘utopiate’.
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#termsfromtoday
I'm always entertained by the terms @immerito tweets using the hashtag #termsfromtoday. As best I can tell, the tag emerged in mid 2011 after a brief flirtation with an alternate hashtag form. You'...
vortex ring state, gamine, airshed, drayage, judging rubric, shoulder graphic, diableries, exaptation, aggravant, anecdata, monégasques, vorticity and 304 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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Euphemisms
Mostly awful and political.
information campaign, enemy combatant, person of interest, collateral damage, friendly fire, detention centre, children overboard, asylum seeker, health care, national interest, economic management, redeployment and 114 more...
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Lurhstaap's Words
A collection of my favorite and/or most-used noteworthy words.
thanatoic, paradox, paradigm, quantum, utopiate, oenic, gnosis, vortex, piquerist, theurge, rataplan, synergy and 39 more...
Tweets
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humongoloid any source that provides an intense, yet short-lived, sensation of perfect happiness followed by a need to experience it again. Sep 22, 2009
xyresic 1. a perverted ideal, or an ideal taken too far.
2. an internal, spiritual utopia which is perceived as achievable, as opposed to external, idealized, impossible political utopiae. Jan 17, 2009
xyresic To me, "utopiate" refers to a spiritual, inner utopia, an achievable one, as opposed to the external, idealistic political utopias usually discussed. But I guess I shouldn't surprise me that I'm not the first person to come up with that particular portmanteau. Jan 17, 2009
mollusque Ideals can be perverted, idealists can go too far. Idealism is the utopiate of the apparatchik.
--John Rodden, 2002, Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995 Feb 7, 2008