ecotopian.

Brit.

/ˌiːkəʊˈtəʊpɪə/,

/ˌɛkəʊˈtəʊpɪə/, U.S.

/ˌɛkoʊˈtoʊpiə/,

/ˌikoʊˈtoʊpiə/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Ecotopia.

Etymology: < Ecotopia, the title of a 1975 novel by U.S. author Ernest Callenbach and the name of the fictional country described in that novel < eco- comb. form + -topia (in utopia n.). Compare earlier dystopia n., kakotopia n., subtopia n., Queuetopia n.

Chiefly U.S.

1. With capital initial. In the fiction of E. Callenbach: an imaginary country, situated on the north-west Pacific coast of the United States, in which environmental concerns are of paramount importance, and society functions in an ecologically sustainable manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun]

heaveneOE

land of behesta1200

Cockaigne?c1335

Fortunate Islands?a1475

eutopia1553

utopia1601

horny gate (also port)1605

nonsucha1618

Americaa1631

El Dorado1788

other world1804

Cockneyland1817

cloud-cuckoo-land1824

Fiddler's Green1825

dreamland1832

Neverland1892

never-never land1900

Big Rock Candy Mountain1917

brave new world1933

Xanadu1948

Disneyland1956

ecotopia1975

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [noun] > belief in a perfect society > example of > ecological

ecotopia1975

1975 E. Callenbach (title) Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston.

1994 New Scientist 4 June 38/3 Ecotopia has no pollution, no telephones, no sugar and no manners. It is a sharing, caring matrifocal society, where people give themselves native American names and expend their natural aggression in ritualised tribal wars, where marijuana is not only legal but distributed by the government and where no one works for more than 20 hours a week.

2005 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 23 Mar. 30 Callenbach's protagonist, William Weston—a journalist and the first American to visit Ecotopia since the secession.

2. In extended use: a place, society, or condition thought to resemble Ecotopia; a place or state which is utopian from an ecological perspective.Sometimes specifically applied the north-west coast of the United States (cf. sense 1).

ΚΠ

1979 Washington Post 4 Mar. c4/1 No where—not even in the Empty Quarter—will you find rugged individualism worshipped the way it is in Ecotopia.

1979 Washington Post 30 Oct. a1/2 New skyscrapers, new industries and new residents attracted to the life in ‘ecotopia’.

1985 Christian Sci. Monitor 8 Mar. b2/2 As for litter, we didn't observe so much as a scrap of paper in our five days in Rainier's back country. This is in the heart of ‘Ecotopia’, after all.

1991 Seattle Times 12 Mar. b3/3 I do not have any answers on how to get from here to ecotopia.

2005 SF Weekly (Calif.) (Nexis) 6 Apr. The pothead's version of hemp's prospects—that it'll make the world an ecotopia by replacing everything we touch, burn, or eat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ecotopia
释义	ecotopian. Brit. /ˌiːkəʊˈtəʊpɪə/, /ˌɛkəʊˈtəʊpɪə/, U.S. /ˌɛkoʊˈtoʊpiə/, /ˌikoʊˈtoʊpiə/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Ecotopia. Etymology: < Ecotopia, the title of a 1975 novel by U.S. author Ernest Callenbach and the name of the fictional country described in that novel < eco- comb. form + -topia (in utopia n.). Compare earlier dystopia n., kakotopia n., subtopia n., Queuetopia n. Chiefly U.S. 1. With capital initial. In the fiction of E. Callenbach: an imaginary country, situated on the north-west Pacific coast of the United States, in which environmental concerns are of paramount importance, and society functions in an ecologically sustainable manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [noun] > belief in a perfect society > example of > ecological ecotopia1975 1975 E. Callenbach (title) Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston. 1994 New Scientist 4 June 38/3 Ecotopia has no pollution, no telephones, no sugar and no manners. It is a sharing, caring matrifocal society, where people give themselves native American names and expend their natural aggression in ritualised tribal wars, where marijuana is not only legal but distributed by the government and where no one works for more than 20 hours a week. 2005 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 23 Mar. 30 Callenbach's protagonist, William Weston—a journalist and the first American to visit Ecotopia since the secession. 2. In extended use: a place, society, or condition thought to resemble Ecotopia; a place or state which is utopian from an ecological perspective.Sometimes specifically applied the north-west coast of the United States (cf. sense 1). ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post 4 Mar. c4/1 No where—not even in the Empty Quarter—will you find rugged individualism worshipped the way it is in Ecotopia. 1979 Washington Post 30 Oct. a1/2 New skyscrapers, new industries and new residents attracted to the life in ‘ecotopia’. 1985 Christian Sci. Monitor 8 Mar. b2/2 As for litter, we didn't observe so much as a scrap of paper in our five days in Rainier's back country. This is in the heart of ‘Ecotopia’, after all. 1991 Seattle Times 12 Mar. b3/3 I do not have any answers on how to get from here to ecotopia. 2005 SF Weekly (Calif.) (Nexis) 6 Apr. The pothead's version of hemp's prospects—that it'll make the world an ecotopia by replacing everything we touch, burn, or eat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1975
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