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Utopia vs. dystopia

[yoo-toh-pee-uh] / yuˈtoʊ pi ə /

noun

  1. an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.

  2. (usually lowercase)  an ideal place or state.

  3. (usually lowercase)  any visionary system of political or social perfection.

[dis-toh-pee-uh] / dɪsˈtoʊ pi ə /

noun

  1. a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.