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- DictionaryDys·to·pi·a/disˈtōpēə/
noun
- 1. an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic: "environmental disaster is the backdrop to this modern dystopia"
Add to word list. a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened; a description of such a society: The film is set in 2700 on an uninhabitable Earth, a dystopia covered in towers of garbage.
Dystopia definition: a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.. See examples of DYSTOPIA used in a sentence.
Add to word list. a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened; a description of such a society: The film is set in 2700 on an uninhabitable Earth, a dystopia covered in towers of garbage.
An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible; opposed to utopia n. (cf. Cacotopia n. ). The Mundus Alter et Idem [of Joseph Hall] is..the opposite of eutopia, the ideal society: it is a dystopia, if it is permissible to coin a word. The ‘ dystopia ’ or ‘inverted utopia’.
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is one in which the conditions of life are miserable , characterized by human misery, poverty , oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution .
: of, relating to, or being an imagined world or society in which people lead dehumanized, fearful lives : relating to or characteristic of a dystopia. A twisted romantic haunted by dystopian visions, Gibson borrows the language of science fiction and crafts doomed love stories with high-tech trappings. Maitland McDonagh.
What is Dystopia? A dystopia (diss-TOE-pee-yuh) is a horrible place where everything has gone wrong. Whereas utopia means a perfect paradise, dystopia means exactly the opposite. The term generally implies a fictional setting, but sometimes people will refer to real places as “dystopic.” II. Examples of Dystopia. Example 1.
