Today's word became one of my favorite because of his antonym utopia.

dystopia

/dɪsˈtəʊpɪə/

Pronunciation..

What does it mean?

Well according to the dictionaries...

-it means a futuristic imagined universe, or place , or state, where everything is unpleasant, corrupted, the people are unhappy leading dehumanized and often fearful lives

-used in medicine, it means an abnormal position of an organ, or a body part, also called "malposition".

A little info about the characteristics of a dystopian universe

The illusion of a perfect society is maintained trough moral, corporate, bureaucratic, or totalitarian control. Dystopias, in a worst-case scenario, make a criticism about current trends or political system.

Propaganda is used to control the people, information and freedom are censored, a figurehead or a concept is worshiped, the citizens are always under surveillance, they fear the outside word and conform to uniform expectations. This kind of society is portrait as an illusion of a perfect utopian world.

Origin

The word dystopia , was first used in 1868, by J.S. Mill, coined as the antonym of "utopia", from which it derives. J.S. Mill used the word dystopian in one of his Parliamentary Speeches.

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