🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

प्रति-यूतोपीय

Pronunciation / Transliteration: prati-yūtopīya

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Anti-utopian/ˌæn.ti.juːˈtəʊ.pi.ən/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यह उपन्यास एक प्रति-यूतोपीय भविष्य का चित्रण करता है।"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or characteristic of a society characterized by human misery, oppression, and totalitarian control, often presented as a critical reaction to utopian ideals.

    "The novelist presented an anti-utopian vision of a future dominated by corporate surveillance and technological dependency."
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who writes or advocates anti-utopian ideas, or someone who views utopian projects as fundamentally flawed or dangerous.

    "As a dedicated anti-utopian, she argued that perfectionist political schemes inevitably lead to tyranny."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix anti- (meaning against or opposed to, from Greek) combined with utopian, which originates from Sir Thomas More's 1516 coined New Latin word 'utopia' (from Greek ou- 'not' + topos 'place'). The term emerged in the mid-20th century to describe literary and philosophical works that actively critique or react against idealized societal visions.

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