Erewhonianadj.n.
/ɛrɪˈwəʊnɪən/ A. adj.
Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the book Erewhon, the utopia described in it, or the principles inculcated therein.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [adjective]
eutopian1606
utopian1613
Erewhonian1897
ecotopian1975
never-never1986
1897 Daily News 16 June 5/2 The Erewhonian plan of counting disease as a crime.
1900 Daily News 10 Dec. 9/6 The Erewhonian Professors, Hanky and Panky.
1921 Edinb. Rev. July 36 The Erewhonian policy of breaking up the machines is manifestly impossible in this country.
1927 Observer 25 Sept. 16/6 The Erewhonian paradox of imprisoning the invalid is not wholly a barren one.
1954 P. Capon Down to Earth iv. 68 The Antigeosians had an almost Erewhonian attitude to physical disabilities... Illness was not something that could be talked about without shame.
B. n.
An inhabitant of Erewhon.
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1921 Edinb. Rev. July 28 The exhortation which persuaded Samuel Butler's Erewhonians to destroy all their machines.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) ii. 49 Beatrice:..But was it the Gypsy, or the Athletic Girl that does Botany? Ernest (shaking his head): No It was an Erewhonian.
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adj.n.1897