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retrotopias

retrotopias is the plural of retrotopia.

Meaning of retrotopia

Noun

retrotopia (countable and uncountable, plural retrotopias)

  1. (neologism) An ideal society inspired by a premodern one.
    • True to the utopian spirit, retrotopia derives its stimulus from the hope of reconciling, at long last, security with freedom: the feat that both the original vision and its first negation didn’t try – or, having attempted, failed – to attain.2017, Zygmunt Bauman, “Introduction: The Age of Nostalgia”, in Retrotopia, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, →ISBN

Questions about retrotopias

What is retrotopias the plural of?
Retrotopias is the plural of retrotopia.

Words near retrotopias in the dictionary

  1. retrosynthesizing
  2. retrosynthetic
  3. retrosynthetically
  4. retrotarsal
  5. retrotopia
  6. retrotopias
  7. retrotorsion
  8. retrotort
  9. retrotorted
  10. retrotorting
  11. retrotorts

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