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heterotopias

heterotopias is the plural of heterotopia.

Meaning of heterotopia

Noun

heterotopia (countable and uncountable, plural heterotopias)

  1. Normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body
  2. The occurrence of an organism in a number of different habitats
  3. (literary criticism) A space which is alien to what is normal within the society, variably presenting a utopian vision in physical form or serving to segregate subversive elements from the wider society.
    • Michel Foucault gave the museum and the mental hospital as two different examples of heterotopias.

Questions about heterotopias

What is heterotopias the plural of?
Heterotopias is the plural of heterotopia.

Words near heterotopias in the dictionary

  1. heterotolerance
  2. heterotolerant
  3. heterotomous
  4. heterotonic
  5. heterotopia
  6. heterotopias
  7. heterotopic
  8. heterotopically
  9. heterotopicity
  10. heterotopies
  11. heterotopism

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