Utopia
Imagined ideal commonwealth
Utopia is the fictional island nation described in Thomas More's 1516 book of the same name, depicting an ideal society with communal property and religious tolerance.
More coined the name from Greek roots meaning "no place," suggesting such perfection exists nowhere.
The book gave English the concept of utopia as any imagined perfect world. (Lowercase utopia is any ideal society.)
- PlatoGreek philosopher, academy founder
- MorrisProper name, English origin
- BaconNotable English surname
- SkinnerBehaviorism's leading theorist
Huxley · Orwell · Bellamy · Ebenezer Howard
- bookBound written work
- treatiseFormal scholarly composition
- satireMockery exposing vice
- LatinAncient Roman language
Renaissance · humanist · dialogue · fiction · coinage
State without monarchy
- Brave New World1932 dystopian fiction
- 1984Dystopian surveillance state tale
- AtlantisMythical sunken island
- Star TrekSpacefaring TV franchise
Thomas More
- PlatoGreek philosopher, academy founder
- MorrisProper name, English origin
- BaconNotable English surname
Huxley · Orwell · Bellamy · Skinner · Ebenezer Howard
Thomas More
Latin · Renaissance · humanist · dialogue · fiction · coinage
Republic
State without monarchy
- Brave New World1932 dystopian fiction
- 1984Dystopian surveillance state tale
- AtlantisMythical sunken island
Oneida
Iroquoian people of New York
- BrasíliaBrazil's purpose-built capital
planned
Decided on beforehand
- cityLarge populated area
- architectureBuilding design discipline
- garden cityPlanned leafy township
urban · futurism · modernism · vision · blueprint · scheme · model · prototype · zoning
- imaginary worldsdreamland, fairyland, wonderland, fantasy realm, dream world
- Mythical PlacesAtlantis, Avalon, El Dorado, Shangri-La, Eden
- literary placesNarnia, Hogwarts, Middle-earth, Westeros, Mordor
- Political TextsThe Communist Manifesto, Communist Manifesto, Leviathan, The Prince, The Social Contract
- Doctor Who EpisodesMidnight, Dalek
- Uvalde CountyUvalde
Utopiadystopia
Imaginary terrible society
anti-utopia · Nineteen Eighty-Four · Brave New World · police state · totalitarianism
Utopiahell
Underworld of suffering
dystopia · nightmare · hellhole · living hell · abyss
Utopiaharsh reality
Uncomfortable actual circumstances
reality · grim reality · actuality · realpolitik · disillusionment
- utopian societyIdealized perfect community
- utopian communityPlanned settlement seeking perfection
- utopian visionImagined perfect society
- utopian idealsBeliefs in achievable perfection
- socialist utopiaPerfect egalitarian collective society
- utopian societiesEnvisioned perfect social orders