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Meaning of dystopia in English

(Definition of dystopia from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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These quotations hint at the several themes fundamental to dystopia.
Although these themes are not necessarily in every dystopia, at least one will always be present.
The consumption utopia they portrayed gained in credibility as the government's portrayal of a capitalist dystopia lost in credibility.
Inherent in nearly all dystopias is a critique of the socio-economic system prevailing within that narrative: for cyberpunk, this is generally corporate capitalism.
Dystopia is extremely easy to create.
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Dystopia was popular in both the heavy metal and crust punk scenes, due in large part to the band's bleak, misanthropic imagery.
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There are a few dystopias that have an anti-ecological theme.
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It has been described as a complex dystopia concerning a computer-ruled society.
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This telenovela has characteristics of a nightmare, dystopia, and science fiction, being drastically different from standard telenovelas, at least approaching serious drama.
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Here, the humorous possibilities of life in a paranoid dystopia are emphasised, and the rules are simplified considerably from the first edition.
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It depicts an empowered condition for liberated women and a dystopia of an all male world.
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It has been classified as a social utopia-type science fiction or simply a dystopia.
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The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind.
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Many works combine elements of both utopias and dystopias.
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Fictional accounts of negative societies are considered dystopias.
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Translations of dystopia

in Chinese (Traditional)
反烏托邦,反面假想國,敵托邦…
in Chinese (Simplified)
反乌托邦,反面假想国,敌托邦…
in Spanish
distopía…
in Portuguese
distopia…
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