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Utopia vs. dystopia

[ yoo-toh-pee-uh ]
noun
  1. an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
  2. an ideal place or state.
  3. any visionary system of political or social perfection.
[ dis-toh-pee-uh ]
noun
  1. a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.

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