单词 | cacotopia |
释义 | Cacotopian. (See quot. 1818, where Utopia ‘nowhere’ seems to be mistaken for Eutopia ‘a place where all is well’.)Apparently an isolated use. 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 1818 J. Bentham Parl. Reform Catech. 73 As a match for Utopia (or the imagined seat of the best government), suppose a Cacotopia (or the imagined seat of the worst government) discovered and described. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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