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Utopian vs Utopic - What's the difference?

utopian | utopic |

As adjectives the difference between utopian and utopic

is that utopian is ideal but often impractical; visionary while utopic is seeming to originate in utopia; utopian.

As a noun utopian

is someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.

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
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    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.