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Utopic vs Topic - What's the difference?

utopic | topic |

As adjectives the difference between utopic and topic

is that utopic is utopian while topic is (l).

As a noun topic is

subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

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.

    • topic

    English

    (wikipedia topic)

    Alternative forms

    * topick (obsolete)

    Adjective

  • (l)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
  • (Internet) Discussion thread.
  • (obsolete) An argument or reason.
  • * Bishop Wilkins
    • contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
  • (obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
    • (Wiseman)

    Synonyms

    * subject

    Derived terms

    * topical * subtopic * off-topic * topic map

    External links

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    Anagrams

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