utopianism

American  

[yoo-toh-pee-uh-niz-uhm] / juˈtoʊ pi əˌnɪz əm /

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)

1. the views or habit of mind of a utopian; impracticable schemes of political or social reform.

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Other Word Forms

• utopianist
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of utopianism

First recorded in 1655–65; utopian + -ism

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Example Sentences

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utopianism

Evans says what this has led to is a kind of simplistic spiritual utopianism evangelized by many leaders of the modern psychedelic renaissance.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024

So utopianism has been there since the beginning.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023

Neither spiritual nor social utopianism fared well in the 20th century.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

The Mad Max framing that shaped so much prepping discourse still exists, but it’s now surrounded by other approaches that might import a little more utopianism into traditionally dystopian thinking.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2022

Hackers do propagandize, but only among themselves, mostly in giddy, badly spelled manifestos of class warfare, youth rebellion or naive techie utopianism.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

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