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English

Etymology

From dys- +? -topia, as if from Ancient Greek ???- (dus-, “bad”) + ????? (tópos, “place, region”) + -?? (-ía), based on utopia, with the privative prefix u- which is coined from the Greek ?? (ou, “not; no”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?s?t??p?i.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?to?pi.?/
• Rhymes: -??pi?

Noun

dystopia (countable and uncountable, plural dystopia or dystopias)

1. A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society.
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2. A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living.
3. (pathology) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

   The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.

Synonyms

• (vision): cacotopia, kakotopia, anti-utopia
• (medical condition): ectopia, ectopy, heterotopia, malposition

Antonyms

• utopia

Derived terms

• dystopian
• dystopic

Translations

(*) The German word Dystopie is mainly used in the medical field.
(**) Is rarely used, instead the terms Anti-Utopia, Gegenutopie, or negative Utopie are used.

See also

• Orwellian

Anagrams

• atypoids

Finnish

Noun

dystopia

1. dystopia

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From English dystopia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??st?.p?a/

Noun

dystopia f

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

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) dystopiczny

Further reading

• dystopia in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• dystopia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• phantasie (archaic)
• phantasy (chiefly dated)

Etymology

From Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phantasía, “apparition”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fænt?si/, /?fænt?zi/

Noun

fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

1. That which comes from one's imagination.
2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
3. A fantastical design.
4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fantasize

Descendants

• ? Czech: fantasy
• ? French: fantasy
• ? German: Fantasy
• ? Malay: fantasi
• ? Polish: fantasy
• ? Swahili: fantasia

Translations

Verb

fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)

1. (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
2. (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

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3. (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

See also

• cloud-cuckoo-land

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.

Noun

fantasy f

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.

Noun

fantasy f (plural fantasys)

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

Polish

Etymology

From English fantasy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan?ta.z?/

Noun

fantasy n (indeclinable)

1. (literature) fantasy (genre)

Adjective

fantasy (not comparable)

1. fantastical (of or pertaining to fantasy)

Declension

Indeclinable.

Related terms

• (noun) fantastyka
• (noun phrase) fantastyka naukowa
• (adjectives) fantastyczny, fantastycznonaukowy
• (adverb) fantastycznie

Further reading

• fantasy in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fantasy in Polish dictionaries at PWN