utopianizev.
/juːˈtəʊpɪənʌɪz/, /jᵿˈtəʊpɪənʌɪz/, U.S. /juˈtoʊpiəˌnaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To imagine or propose a utopia; to plan, or attempt to construct, a perfect society.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > represent as ideal [verb (intransitive)] > form ideal schemes
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1835 G. P. R. James On Educ. Inst. Germany iv. 86 We have no right to Utopianize, if I may use such a word.
1911 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli i. iv. 141 We planned, half in earnest and half Utopianizing, a League of Social Service.
1997 J. Deery in D. M. Hassler & C. Wilcox Polit. Sci. Fiction iii. 28 Narrating fiction and constructing utopias have much in common, for to utopianize is to see the whole picture.
2. transitive. To render utopian; to make (a place, state of existence, etc.) perfect or apparently perfect.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [verb (transitive)] > Utopianize
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1844 League 21 Dec. 201/3 You may also be correct in thinking that the results of Corn-law repeal have been sometimes..overrated and Utopianized.
1913 Public Opinion 26 Dec. 715/1 The international aspect of Utopianising the modern world.
1983 Hist. Workshop Spring 82 They ‘utopianized’ classical history into the model of a new, innocent society, an ideal Republic.
2003 R. V. Kozinets in S. Brown & J. F. Sherry Time, Space, & Market ii. xi. 209 The distant past and the future..end up being hopelessly romanticized and utopianized.
Derivatives
uˈtopianizer n. rare a person who imagines or proposes a utopia; = utopian n. 2.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > Utopianism > adherent of
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a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VII. 499 Like most Utopianizers the legislator of this Columbia had placed his Absolute King and his free People under..strict laws.
1985 Boundary 2 13 244 The utopianizer may be said to manipulate the laws and the content of the political unconscious.
uˈtopianizing n. the action of proposing a utopia or rendering something apparently perfect.
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1859 Morning Chron. 26 May 5/4 Civilisation, progress, and Christianity are for Europe names and not facts, utopianising and not realities.
1905 H. G. Wells Mod. Utopia ii. 62 I pass..from Utopianising altogether, to ask the question that..Schopenhauer failed completely to answer.
1994 Interzone Oct. 36/1 The one shrewd thing about the movie's otherwise imbecilic narrative line is the way it plays on this utopianizing of the years between Korea and Vietnam.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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