# dystopia
## English
### Etymology

From dys- +‎ -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), based on utopia being reinterpreted as eu-topia.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪsˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
* (General American) IPA: /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
* (General Australian) IPA: /dɪsˈtɐʉpiə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊpiə

### Noun

dystopia (countable and uncountable, plural dystopia or dystopias or dystopiae)
* A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
    Synonyms: cacotopia, anti-utopia
    Antonym: utopia
** 1978 November 19, Martin Amis, “A Stoked‐Up 1976”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:As novelist, he knows, too, that when he sees the future, it will not work—he will automatically be creating a “dystopia” (no one creates utopias any more: even the utopias of the past look like dystopias to us).
** 1997, Jeff Yang, Dina Gan, Terry Hong, the staff of A. Magazine, Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture: from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, Mariner Books, →ISBN, page 57:2. FEAR OF TECHNOLOGY/THE BOMB/THE FUTURE—Progress run amok, either in the form of cybernetic creatures that turn against their masters, or future dystopiae in which society is controlled by technology.
** 1997, Jacqueline Foertsch, “The Bomb Next Door: Four Postwar Alterapocalyptics”, in Genre, page 346:Erich Fromm, who has commented on 1984 and other dystopiae in postmodern literature discovers a mechanized dystopia in the text of existence itself in the ’50s and ’60s—a “technological nightmare” that had turned people into zombies and made the darkest alternative to “boring aliveness” seem attractive.
** 1999, Mick Farren, Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, front flap – back flap:[Aimee Semple] McPherson’s sexier half becomes the object of Jim [Morrison]’s obsession, and as the two struggle to find each other in this disordered land, their wild, careening chase through a dozen dystopiae recalls imagined worlds as diverse as Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange and Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil.
** 2003, Judith Fitzgerald, Adagios: Iphigenia’s Song, Oberon Press, →ISBN, page 50:Recollections tattooed with stiletto reasons and a sorrowful slant of light admitting of dystopiae already petrified in progress.
** 2003, Luciano Pellicani, Revolutionary Apocalypse: Ideological Roots of Terrorism, Westport, Conn., London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 233:Its function is to legitimate that particular form of moral tribalism based on the “pedagogy of hatred” that [Evgeny] Zamiatin and [George] Orwell described so brilliantly in their dystopiae.
** 2014 December 11, Megan Willett-Wei, “The 16 Most Disappointing Places To Visit On Earth”, in Business Insider‎:But you get to the beach via monorail and you get to the sand and look out to the ocean and all you see is oil tankers and factories spewing smoke on the horizon. It was like some sort of futuristic dystopia.
** 2017, Kim Newman, Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews, Titan Books, →ISBN:Like many dystopiae, it ends up with the lead characters wandering into a sylvan wilderness (an English wood) away from the nasty city.
* (pathology) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.
    Synonyms: ectopia, ectopy, heterotopia, malposition
    The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.
** 1899, Joshua M. Van Cott, Jr., “Pathology of the Fœtus—Anomalies of the Fœtus”, in Charles Jewett, editor, The Practice of Obstetrics by American Authors, New York, N.Y., Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea Brothers & Co., part V (Pathology of Pregnancy), page 325:2. Dystopiæ of separate organs.
** 1930 January 16, The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 202, number 3, page 126, column 1:Davis, J. E. (J. Urol., Vol. xx-155, 1928), writing on the surgical pathology of malformation in the kidneys and ureters, classifies these anomalies into three groups: (a) anomalies of position (dystopiae).
** 1968, Walter Ritter, Kraniofaziale Dysplasien und Störungen der Zahnentwicklung:While harelips were mostly associated with dystopiae of the incisor teeth, median jaw fusion was accompanied by characteristic dental fusion.
** 1979, British Journal of Urology, page xlv:Surgical treatment of congenital testicular dystopiae. (B. Kleinteich et al.) Zentralbl. Chir. 1979, 104, 736.

#### Derived terms

* dystopia canthorum
* dystopian
* dystopic

#### Translations

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### See also

* dysphoria
* Orwellian

### Anagrams

* atypoids

## Finnish
### Etymology

Internationalism (see English dystopia).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdystopiɑ/, [ˈdys̠to̞ˌpiɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -iɑ
* Hyphenation: dys‧to‧pia

### Noun

dystopia
* dystopia

#### Declension

Possessive forms of dystopia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dystopiani
dystopiani
accusative
nom.
dystopiani
dystopiani
gen.
dystopiani
genitive
dystopiani
dystopioideni dystopioitteni dystopiaini $^{rare}$
partitive
dystopiaani
dystopioitani
inessive
dystopiassani
dystopioissani
elative
dystopiastani
dystopioistani
illative
dystopiaani
dystopioihini
adessive
dystopiallani
dystopioillani
ablative
dystopialtani
dystopioiltani
allative
dystopialleni
dystopioilleni
essive
dystopianani
dystopioinani
translative
dystopiakseni
dystopioikseni
abessive
dystopiattani
dystopioittani
instructive
comitative
—dystopioineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dystopiasi
dystopiasi
accusative
nom.
dystopiasi
dystopiasi
gen.
dystopiasi
genitive
dystopiasi
dystopioidesi dystopioittesi dystopiaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
dystopiaasi
dystopioitasi
inessive
dystopiassasi
dystopioissasi
elative
dystopiastasi
dystopioistasi
illative
dystopiaasi
dystopioihisi
adessive
dystopiallasi
dystopioillasi
ablative
dystopialtasi
dystopioiltasi
allative
dystopiallesi
dystopioillesi
essive
dystopianasi
dystopioinasi
translative
dystopiaksesi
dystopioiksesi
abessive
dystopiattasi
dystopioittasi
instructive
comitative
—dystopioinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dystopiamme
dystopiamme
accusative
nom.
dystopiamme
dystopiamme
gen.
dystopiamme
genitive
dystopiamme
dystopioidemme dystopioittemme dystopiaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
dystopiaamme
dystopioitamme
inessive
dystopiassamme
dystopioissamme
elative
dystopiastamme
dystopioistamme
illative
dystopiaamme
dystopioihimme
adessive
dystopiallamme
dystopioillamme
ablative
dystopialtamme
dystopioiltamme
allative
dystopiallemme
dystopioillemme
essive
dystopianamme
dystopioinamme
translative
dystopiaksemme
dystopioiksemme
abessive
dystopiattamme
dystopioittamme
instructive
comitative
—dystopioinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dystopianne
dystopianne
accusative
nom.
dystopianne
dystopianne
gen.
dystopianne
genitive
dystopianne
dystopioidenne dystopioittenne dystopiainne $^{rare}$
partitive
dystopiaanne
dystopioitanne
inessive
dystopiassanne
dystopioissanne
elative
dystopiastanne
dystopioistanne
illative
dystopiaanne
dystopioihinne
adessive
dystopiallanne
dystopioillanne
ablative
dystopialtanne
dystopioiltanne
allative
dystopiallenne
dystopioillenne
essive
dystopiananne
dystopioinanne
translative
dystopiaksenne
dystopioiksenne
abessive
dystopiattanne
dystopioittanne
instructive
comitative
—dystopioinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dystopiansa
dystopiansa
accusative
nom.
dystopiansa
dystopiansa
gen.
dystopiansa
genitive
dystopiansa
dystopioidensa dystopioittensa dystopiainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
dystopiaansa
dystopioitaan dystopioitansa
inessive
dystopiassaan dystopiassansa
dystopioissaan dystopioissansa
elative
dystopiastaan dystopiastansa
dystopioistaan dystopioistansa
illative
dystopiaansa
dystopioihinsa
adessive
dystopiallaan dystopiallansa
dystopioillaan dystopioillansa
ablative
dystopialtaan dystopialtansa
dystopioiltaan dystopioiltansa
allative
dystopialleen dystopiallensa
dystopioilleen dystopioillensa
essive
dystopianaan dystopianansa
dystopioinaan dystopioinansa
translative
dystopiakseen dystopiaksensa
dystopioikseen dystopioiksensa
abessive
dystopiattaan dystopiattansa
dystopioittaan dystopioittansa
instructive
comitative
—dystopioineen dystopioinensa :

### Further reading

* “dystopia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dystopia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɘsˈtɔ.pja/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔpja
* Syllabification: dys‧to‧pia

### Noun

dystopia f
* (film, literature) dystopia (vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society)

#### Derived terms

* dystopiczny

### Further reading

* dystopia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* dystopia in Polish dictionaries at PWN