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Literally, Greek for "bad place"
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dystopia
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A dystopia is a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. Dystopia may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"imaginary bad place," 1868, apparently coined by J.S. Mill ("Hansard Commons"), from Greek dys- "bad, abnormal, difficult" (see dys- ) + utopia . Related: Dystopian .
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.