Meaning

noun state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

noun a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror

originFrom dys- + -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), based on utopia being reinterpreted as eu-topia.

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