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Society in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Fahrenheit 451"
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dystopia
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A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia , kakotopia , or simply anti-utopia ) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as "not-good place", an antonym of utopia , a term that was coined by ...
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n. 1 A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society. 2 A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living. 3 (context medicine English) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual ...
Usage examples of dystopia.
But can there be dystopias today with science and technology advancing as they do?
My futuristic dystopias could perhaps be more correctly classified as nightmares, but it was the more lighthearted contemporary fantasy, the kid stuff, that had made me a household name.
After World War II, deluged by stories about atomic war and post-nuclear dystopias, Campbell announced that atomic bombs and space flight had been used up as topics, and writers needed to turn to something new.
Clements was treating the policewoman to one of his lectures, waving his hands as he pontificated on change and decay, Utopias and Dystopias, past glory and contemporary decadence.
Syzygy, crapulent, posterity, smegma, toiletry, dystopia, dentrifrice, bastinado, ferae naturae.