utopia

A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

Noun

  1. A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
    • Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future. - 1945, Chimera: A Literary...
    • « Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ». - 1959, Civilisations, page 426:
    • As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan. - 1962 August, G. Freeman...

Origin

Etymology tree Ancient Greek οὐ (ou) Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) New Latin Ūtopiader. English utopia From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.

Forms

utopia utopias utopiae Utopia

Synonyms

paradise

Antonyms

dystopia unutopia

Related

heaven paradise

Derived

anti-utopia autopia blacktopia cyberutopia dystopia eutopia Eutopia eutopic gaytopia heterotopia infotopia intimatopia Jewtopia pornotopia privatopia romantopia sextopia technoutopia techno-utopian technoutopian technotopian unutopia utopian Utopian