kakotopian.

Etymology: < kako- comb. form + -topia (in eutopia n., utopia n.).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: kakoˈtopia.

= dystopia n. Cf. Cacotopia n.

ΘΚΠ

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

Cacotopia1818

kakotopia1915

Ginny Gall1922

dystopia1952

1915 P. Geddes Cities in Evol. ii. 74 The material alternatives of real economics, which these obsessions of money economics have been too long obfuscating, are broadly two, and each is towards realising an ideal, a Utopia. These are the paleotechnic and the neotechnic—Kakotopia and Eutopia respectively.

1970 New Yorker 10 Oct. 100/3 I use ‘kakotopia’..as the opposite of ‘utopia’, to describe a misplanned and ugly urbanoid place.

1970 L. Mumford Myth of Machine: Pentagon of Power II. 49 This nightmarish conclusion..has been a recurrent theme of later technological kakotopias.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kakotopia
释义	kakotopian. Etymology: < kako- comb. form + -topia (in eutopia n., utopia n.).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: kakoˈtopia. = dystopia n. Cf. Cacotopia n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] > very bad place Cacotopia1818 kakotopia1915 Ginny Gall1922 dystopia1952 1915 P. Geddes Cities in Evol. ii. 74 The material alternatives of real economics, which these obsessions of money economics have been too long obfuscating, are broadly two, and each is towards realising an ideal, a Utopia. These are the paleotechnic and the neotechnic—Kakotopia and Eutopia respectively. 1970 New Yorker 10 Oct. 100/3 I use ‘kakotopia’..as the opposite of ‘utopia’, to describe a misplanned and ugly urbanoid place. 1970 L. Mumford Myth of Machine: Pentagon of Power II. 49 This nightmarish conclusion..has been a recurrent theme of later technological kakotopias. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1915
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