dystopia

English

WOTD – 3 February 2012    

Wikipedia

Etymology

Coined from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus, “bad”) + τόπος (topos, “place, region”) on model of dys- +‎ utopia (retaining stem, removing u- prefix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪsˌtəʊpɪiə/ X-SAMPA: /"dIs%t@Upi:@/
• Rhymes: -əʊpiə

Noun

dystopia (plural dystopias)

1. A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society.
2. A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living.
3. (medicine) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

   The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.

Synonyms

• (vision): cacotopia, kakotopia, anti-utopia
• (medical condition): malposition

Antonyms

• utopia

Derived terms

• dystopian

Translations

vision of a future

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反烏托邦 (cmn), 反乌托邦 (cmn) (fǎnwūtuōbāng)

• Dutch: dystopie (nl) f
• Esperanto: malutopio (eo)
• Finnish: dystopia (fi)
• French: dystopie (fr) f, contre-utopie (fr) f

• German: Dystopie (de) f, Mätopie (de), Anti-Utopie (de) f, Gegenutopie (de) f
• Hungarian: disztópia (hu)
• Japanese: 暗黒郷 (ja) (あんこくきょう, ankokukyō), ディストピア (ja) (disutopia)
• Korean: 반이상향 (ko) (banisanghyang), 디스토피아 (ko) (diseutopia)
• Russian: антиутопия (ru) (antiutópija) f
• Swedish: dystopi (sv) c

miserable society

• Dutch: dystopie (nl) f
• Esperanto: malutopio (eo)
• Finnish: dystopia (fi)

• Russian: дистопия (ru) (distópija, distopíja) f
• Swedish: dystopi (sv) c

medical condition

• Esperanto: malutopio (eo)
• Finnish: malpositio (fi)
• French: dystopie (fr) f

• German: Dystopie (de) f
• Russian: дистопия (ru) (distópija, distopíja) f

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: дистопия

• Portuguese: distopia f
• Spanish: distopía

(*) The German word Dystopie is mainly used in the medical field.
(**) Is rarely used, instead the terms Anti-Utopia, Gegenutopie, or negative Utopie are used.

See also

• Orwellian

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Finnish

Noun

dystopia

1. dystopia

Declension

Declension of dystopia (type kulkija) singular plural nominative dystopia dystopiat genitive dystopian dystopioiden dystopioitten dystopiain1 partitive dystopiaa dystopioita accusative dystopia dystopian dystopiat inessive dystopiassa dystopioissa elative dystopiasta dystopioista illative dystopiaan dystopioihin adessive dystopialla dystopioilla ablative dystopialta dystopioilta allative dystopialle dystopioille essive dystopiana dystopioina translative dystopiaksi dystopioiksi instructive – dystopioin abessive dystopiatta dystopioitta comitative – dystopioineen 1) Rare.