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Imaginary vs Utopian - What's the difference?

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Imaginary is a related term of utopian.


As adjectives the difference between imaginary and utopian

is that imaginary is existing only in the imagination while utopian is ideal but often impractical; visionary.

As nouns the difference between imaginary and utopian

is that imaginary is imagination; fancy while utopian is someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.

imaginary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • existing only in the imagination
  • * Addison
    • Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
  • (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

    • Derived terms

    * imaginarily * imaginariness

    Noun

    (imaginaries)
  • Imagination; fancy.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
    • By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
  • (mathematics) An imaginary quantity.

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    * (Imaginary number)

    utopian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
    • a utopian project
  • of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia
    • utopian happiness

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 29, author=Michiko Kakutani, title=The Cult of the Amateur, work=New York Times citation
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