unutopia

English

Alternative forms

• Unutopia, untopia

Etymology

From un- +‎ utopia.

Noun

unutopia (usually uncountable, plural unutopias)

1. The antithesis of utopia; anti-utopia; dystopia
   • 1970, National transportation act, page 219:

     The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area had received $4 million from the Bureau of Public Roads, with which they had done a transportation study which of course produces a Utopia for automobiles, which is unutopia for human beings.

   • 1978, The Spectator, volume 240, number 1, page 25:

     But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.

   • 2003, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, volume 1213, page 112:

     In the following excerpt, Keefer places A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder within the context of Canadian Maritime fiction, focusing on the narrative as an "unutopia" that questions the value of idealistic spiritual and political philosophies.

   • 2013, Jason Hurlburt, ALLA NAZIMOVA IN GOOGOLPLEXNAIRE, page 78:

     The unutopia was bizarrely unutopianly a thing, antiutopianly. Disutopianism.