antidystopian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ dystopian

Adjective[edit]

antidystopian (comparative more antidystopian, superlative most antidystopian)

  1. Opposing a dystopia.
    • 1996, George Thomas Kurian, Graham Thomas Tate Molitor, Encyclopedia of the future, volume 1, page 212:
      However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.
    • 2009, David M. Kaplan, Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, page 140:
      This is not a democratic program but a romantic antidystopian one, the sort of thing that is already foreshadowed in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground and various back-to-nature ideologies.