utopianism

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

noun (sometimes initial capital letter)

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

Origin of utopianism

1655–65; utopian + -ism

Related formsu·to·pi·an·ist, noun

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Examples from the Web for utopianism

Historical Examples of utopianism

Otherwise, indeed, it would only be a new kind of Utopianism.
Socialism
John Spargo
Doubtless both Marx and Engels lapsed occasionally into Utopianism.
Socialism
John Spargo
Quixotism, or Utopianism; that is another of the devil's pet words.
Lectures on Architecture and Painting
John Ruskin
Let us think for a few moments what romance and Utopianism mean.
Lectures on Architecture and Painting
John Ruskin
It was the utopianism of our tails, in most cases, that first cracked the shell.
Socialism: Positive and Negative
Robert Rives La Monte

Word Origin and History for utopianism

n.

c.1810, from utopian + -ism.

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