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Utopic vs Dystopic - What's the difference?

utopic | dystopic |

As adjectives the difference between utopic and dystopic

is that utopic is utopian while dystopic is dystopian.

utopic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Seeming to originate in utopia; utopian
  • *1850 , Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga (L. Mariotti), Scenes from Italian life , pg. 133:
  • *:They dismissed the work as utopic , unpractical.
  • *1919 , Robert Briffault, The Making of Humanity , G. Allen & Unwin ltd., pg. 247:
  • *:[...] and those issues and the potentialities out of which they arise are such as would to any previous age, could it have so much as conceived them, have seemed the distant problems of utopic speculation.
  • *2000 , Tom Brass, Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth , Routledge, ISBN 9780714649405, pg. 243:
  • *:By contrast, in the the utopic' vision of Hilton and Capra it is space which is traversed and not time; both ' utopic and dystopic exist in the same moment but occupy a different terrain.

    • dystopic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • dystopian