ütopya

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Definition of ütopya in Turkish English dictionary

Utopia today means a realisable impossibility. - Bugün ütopya gerçekleşebilir bir imkansızlık anlamına geliyor.

Finland is no utopia. - Finlandiya ütopya değildir.

(u TOPE i a) An ideal, but imaginary community in which laws, government, and social conditions operated for the benefit and well-being of all its inhabitants The term was coined by Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), from two Greek words which together mean "a good place " More made it the title of a book he wrote about an ideal community

A time or place of perfection

A perfect, remote and almost unthinkably ideal 'place' (construed as a location, an era, a political state, or even a state of mind) and therefore the opposite of 'dystopia' Pictorial instances of utopian scenes are fairly commonplace, e g Arcadian vistas of the golden age (Greco-Roman wall paintings, some of the landscapes of Poussin and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, etc )

See"BUBBLE BATH"

An utterly impractical plan or scheme for an ideal human existence which is unattainable because of the inherent character of man Utopians are impractical idealists or dreamers removed from reality

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A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony

The satirical treatise on government by Sir Thomas More, from which the term was coined

ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

a work of fiction describing a utopia

an imaginary and indefinitely remote place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions; an ideal and perfect place or state, where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best; or a description of such a place

an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal

– Any idealized place, state, or situation of perfection

See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction

an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal a work of fiction describing a utopia a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

{i} place or state of ideal perfection; idealistic scheme for political or social perfection

A tale depicting a perfect human society The name derives from Sir Thomas More's 16th century book, though the Latin word "utopia" actually means "nowhere " Prime examples include Butler's Erewhon ["nowhere" spelled backwards] Bellamy's Looking Backward, and Russ' "A Few Things I Know About Whileaway" (in NBSF) A dystopia is an inverted utopia

Definition A perfect world Example Related Terms Dystopia

a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island

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