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Utopianism|juːˈtəʊpɪənɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism.]
†1. A Utopian idea or condition. Obs.—1
a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 194 Plato indeed would have his cittizens ambidexters:..this was but one of his vtopianismes.
2. The body of views, aims, or tenets of Utopians; impossibly ideal schemes for the amelioration or perfection of social conditions, etc.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 69 Such an improvement that the stamp of Utopianism..threatens to render the acceptance of it next to hopeless. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. vi. 237 The abortive enterprises of wild yet benevolent Utopianism. 1879Kaufmann Utopias 258 The superiority of the most recent forms of Utopianism over previous schemes of social improvement. |