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单词 cacotopia
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Cacotopian.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: caco- comb. form, eutopia n.
Etymology: < caco- comb. form + -topia (in eutopia n.).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: Cacoˈtopia.
(See quot. 1818, where Utopia ‘nowhere’ seems to be mistaken for Eutopia ‘a place where all is well’.)Apparently an isolated use.
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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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