From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdystopiadys‧to‧pi‧a /dɪsˈtəʊpiə $ -ˈtoʊ-/ noun [countable] an imaginary place where life is extremely difficult and a lot of unfair or immoral things happen OPP utopia
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dystopia• Utopias are goals to be reached and dystopias goals to be avoided.• But the narrative of the afterlife is so fully developed it seems to be Self's surreal dystopia of urban alienation.• But the flipside of utopia, dystopia, has also been a fertile undercurrent of modernity.Origin dystopia (1900-2000) dys- “bad” (from Greek) + utopia 