utopianism

[ yoo-toh-pee-uh-niz-uhm ]

/ yuˈtoʊ pi əˌnɪz əm /

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noun (sometimes initial capital letter)

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

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Origin of utopianism

1655–65; utopian + -ism

OTHER WORDS FROM utopianism

u·to·pi·an·ist, noun

Words nearby utopianism

utmost good faith, Utnapishtim, Uto-Aztecan, Utopia, Utopian, utopianism, utopian socialism, Utopia Planitia, utopism, Utraquist, Utrecht

How to use utopianism in a sentence

The show’s focus on a space race between the USA and USSR that never ended posits that such a space race would have led to a world where the dial was turned just a couple of clicks more toward utopianism.
One Good Thing: For All Mankind explores a world where humans lived on the moon — in the 1970s|Emily VanDerWerff|March 19, 2021|Vox
Its dramatization of the clash between utopianism and geopolitical catastrophe becomes more potent with every passing year.
How to Watch Watchmen|Douglas Wolk|January 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST
And the philosophical syndicalism that was born of this union combines utopianism and anarchism.
Violence and the Labor Movement|Robert Hunter
It is by answering possible objections to Utopianism that I shall best be able to unfold Egeria's philosophy of education.
What Is and What Might Be|Edmond Holmes

I make this appeal at the risk of incurring only contempt for my Utopianism.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)|John Ruskin
In the estimation of socialists to-day his work was of a very high order, “not mere utopianism.”
Browning and His Century|Helen Archibald Clarke
It consists of animistic, theological and dualistic habits of thought, issuing in utopianism and non-materialistic idealism.
Socialism: Positive and Negative|Robert Rives La Monte