Dystopia vs Fantasy - What's the difference?
dystopia | fantasy |
A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society.
A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living.
(medicine) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.
That which comes from one's imagination.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and fictive medieval technology.
A fantastical design.
* Hawthorne
(slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
(literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
* 2013 , Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV
(obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
As nouns the difference between dystopia and fantasy
is that dystopia is a vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society while fantasy is that which comes from one's imagination.As a verb fantasy is
to fantasize (about).dystopia
English
(wikipedia dystopia)Noun
(en noun)- The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia .
Synonyms
* (vision) cacotopia, kakotopia, anti-utopia * (medical condition) malpositionAntonyms
* utopiaDerived terms
* dystopianSee also
* Orwellian ----fantasy
English
(wikipedia fantasy)Alternative forms
* phantasie * phantasy (chiefly dated)Noun
(fantasies)- Is not this something more than fantasy ?
- A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory.
- Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
Derived terms
* high fantasy * low fantasyVerb
- Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
- (Cavendish)
- Which he doth most fantasy .