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/dɪˈstoʊpiə/ · dys·to·pia
noun
- A vision of a future society that is a corrupted or perverted version of an ideal utopia. The novel paints a bleak dystopia where the government monitors every thought.
- A miserable, dysfunctional state or society characterized by poor living standards and oppression. After the war, the city fell into a dystopia of scarcity and lawlessness.
- An anatomical condition in which tissue is located in an abnormal position. The surgeon noted a case of adrenal dystopia during the operation.
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Did you know? The term ‘dystopia’ was first coined by John Stuart Mill in 1868 as a direct counter‑point to ‘utopia’, and it gained popular traction after Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel *Brave New World*.