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Definitions for dystopia
dɪsˈtoʊ pi ədystopi·a

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dystopianoun

    state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

  2. dystopianoun

    a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror

Wiktionary

  1. dystopianoun

    A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society.

  2. dystopianoun

    A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living.

  3. dystopianoun

    Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

    The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.

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  1. dystopia

    A dystopia is a fictional society that represents the opposite of an ideal world, also known as a utopia. It is typically characterized by social, political, or environmental conditions and circumstances that are extremely negative or oppressive, leading to human suffering and injustice. These societies are often depicted in various works of literature, film, and other types of media.

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  1. Dystopia

    A dystopia is a community or society, usually fictional, that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia. Such societies appear in many works of fiction, particularly in stories set in a speculative future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Elements of dystopias may vary from environmental to political and social issues. Dystopian societies have culminated in a broad series of sub-genres of fiction and are often used to raise real-world issues regarding society, environment, politics, religion, psychology, spirituality, or technology that may become present in the future. For this reason, dystopias have taken the form of a multitude of speculations, such as pollution, poverty, societal collapse, political repression, or totalitarianism. Famous depictions of dystopian societies include R.U.R., which introduces the term Robot and the modern Robot concept along with the first Androids due to being organic, and is the first elaborate depiction of a machine take-over; Nineteen Eighty-Four, a totalitarian invasive super state; Brave New World, where the human population is placed under a caste of psychological allocation; Fahrenheit 451, where the state burns books out of fear of what they may incite; The Hunger Games, a government that controls its people by maintaining a constant state of fear through fights to the death. The Iron Heel was described by Erich Fromm as "the earliest of the modern Dystopian".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dystopia in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dystopia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of dystopia in a Sentence

  1. Ron DeSantis:

    Floridians are free to choose, and all Americans should be free to choose, how they govern their affairs, how they take care of themselves and our families, they should not be consigned to live, regardless of which state in the union, consigned to live in a Faucian dystopia.

  2. Kevin Sandler:

    People needed relief from all of the terror and from all of the dystopia and from all of the anger, and' Scooby-Doo' is groovy, kids get scared, they watch, they think life is good, the monsters aren't real.

  3. Sondhya Gupta:

    Apple's investors have sounded the alarm that Tim Cook needs to listen to the concerns raised by frontline communities such as Tibetans and Uighurs who have long suffered under a tech dystopia.

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