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DYSTOPIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("dystopia" is a kind of...):
fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
Sense 2
Meaning:
State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("dystopia" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Antonym:
utopia (ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects)
Derivation:
dystopian (as bad as can be; characterized by human misery)
dystopian (of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia)
