utopia
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə//
- Vereinigte Staaten//juˈtoʊ.pi.ə//
A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
Substantiv
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A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future.
« Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ».
As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.
Orwell had correctly seen that the achievement of Wells’s ideas would be far from the frivolity of “Utopiae full of nude women” and visions of “super garden cities.”
Herkunft
Etymology tree Ancient Greek οὐ (ou) Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) New Latin Ūtopiader. English utopia From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.
Formen
- Plural
- utopias, utopiae
utopia · A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
utter · To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete,…Utter · A surname.utterly · Completely; entirely; to the fullest extent.