dystopias

Noun

dystopia (countable and uncountable, plural dystopia or dystopias or dystopiae)

1. A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
   • As novelist, he knows, too, that when he sees the future, it will not work—he will automatically be creating a “dystopia” (no one creates utopias any more: even the utopias of the past look like dystopias to us).1978 November 19, Martin Amis, “A Stoked‐Up 1976”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   cacotopia, anti-utopia

   Antonyms:

   utopia

2. Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.
   • The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.

   Synonyms:

   ectopia, ectopy, heterotopia, malposition