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单词 eutopia
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eutopian.

Brit. /juːˈtəʊpɪə/, /jᵿˈtəʊpɪə/, U.S. /juˈtoʊpiə/
Forms: 1500s eutopie, 1500s– eutopia.
Origin: Of multiple origins. A borrowing from Latin. Apparently also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Latin Eutopia ; utopia n.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin Eutopia (T. More 1516: see note) < ancient Greek εὐ- eu- comb. form + τόπος place (see topos n.) + -ία -ia suffix1, punningly after post-classical Latin Utopia utopia n. In some later instances (e.g. in quots. 1714, 1792) apparently an error for the homophone utopia n. With recent use, compare dystopia n., and also Cacotopia n. Frequently with capital initial, especially in early use. For use in post-classical Latin compare:1516 T. More Hexastichon in Utopia sig. *2v Vtopia priscis dicta, ob infrequentiam, Nunc ciuitatis æmula Platonicæ..Eutopia merito sum vocanda nomine [‘I was called Utopia in ancient times, because of its rarity, now I am an imitator of the Platonic state..I am rightly called by the name of Eutopia’].
A perfect (imagined or hypothetical) society or state of existence; a place of supreme happiness. Also: a literary work describing such a place; a vision of an ideal state of existence. Cf. utopia n.In early use sometimes distinguished from utopia in being a possible, rather than purely imaginary, place of happiness (see e.g. quots. 1556, 1610). Now chiefly used synonymously with utopia, though sometimes used to emphasize the positive nature of the imagined state or society, with reference to the sense of the ancient Greek prefix (see etymology; cf. eu- comb. form).
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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 > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness
heaveneOE
Edena1225
paradise?a1300
Garden of Eden1535
eutopia1553
happy land1562
Arcady1590
Hesperidesa1592
Elysiuma1616
God's own country1807
lotusland1856
Adamless Eden1876
summerland1895
Shangri-La1941
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 106 Sir Thomas More for his Eutopia can soner be remembred of me, then worthely praised of any according as the excellencie of his inuencion in that behaulf doth most iustly require.
1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Svii What Platoes penne hathe platted briefely In naked wordes,..The same haue I perfourmed fully... Wherfore not Utopie, but rather rightely My name is Eutopie [L. Eutopia]: A place of felicitie.
1610 T. Thorpe in J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Then [when Healey translated Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem, he treated] of a deuised Country scarse on earth, now of a desired Citie sure in heauen; then of Vtopia, now of Eutopia.
1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem ii. 23 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles No more..than it will prove there is a Commonwealth in Eutopia.
1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees 19 T'enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease Without great Vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the Brain.
1792 tr. J. P. Brissot de Warville New Trav. U.S.A. iii. 61 If men of wisdom and information should organize the plan of a society before it existed.., ought they to be condemned as having formed an Eutopia [Fr. une Utopie]?
1839 Corsair 31 Aug. 396/2 Having, by force or persuasion, established a grand Eutopia, Napoleonised Europe would have enjoyed the blessings of a political millennium.
1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 173/3 This presents us with one of those Utopias—or ‘Eutopias’, if we adopt the spelling favoured by some social reformers—which are so easily planned and have so little relation to reality.
1984 Jrnl. Politics 46 121 The modern utopia..insists on a vision of the good life, so that it is always a eutopia.
2010 K. M. Roemer in G. Claeys Cambr. Compan. Utopian Lit. iv. 79 If the authors and/or readers perceive the imaginary culture as being significantly better than their ‘present’ reality, then the work is a literary eutopia (or more commonly, a utopia).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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