dystopia — meaning in English

English meaning

• dystopia noun An imagined society in which life is deliberately made bad — typically through oppression, surveillance, environmental ruin or total state control.

Senses

dystopia is used for these senses in English:

• dystopia A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
• dystopia (pathology) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

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