eutopian.

Brit.

/juːˈtəʊpɪə/,

/jᵿˈtəʊpɪə/, U.S.

/juˈtoʊpiə/

Forms: 1500s eutopie, 1500s– eutopia.

Origin: Of multiple origins. A borrowing from Latin. Apparently also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Latin Eutopia ; utopia n.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin Eutopia (T. More 1516: see note) < ancient Greek εὐ- eu- comb. form + τόπος place (see topos n.) + -ία -ia suffix¹, punningly after post-classical Latin Utopia utopia n. In some later instances (e.g. in quots. 1714, 1792) apparently an error for the homophone utopia n. With recent use, compare dystopia n., and also Cacotopia n. Frequently with capital initial, especially in early use. For use in post-classical Latin compare:1516 T. More Hexastichon in Utopia sig. *2^v Vtopia priscis dicta, ob infrequentiam, Nunc ciuitatis æmula Platonicæ..Eutopia merito sum vocanda nomine [‘I was called Utopia in ancient times, because of its rarity, now I am an imitator of the Platonic state..I am rightly called by the name of Eutopia’].

A perfect (imagined or hypothetical) society or state of existence; a place of supreme happiness. Also: a literary work describing such a place; a vision of an ideal state of existence. Cf. utopia n.In early use sometimes distinguished from utopia in being a possible, rather than purely imaginary, place of happiness (see e.g. quots. 1556, 1610). Now chiefly used synonymously with utopia, though sometimes used to emphasize the positive nature of the imagined state or society, with reference to the sense of the ancient Greek prefix (see etymology; cf. eu- comb. form).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun]

heaveneOE

land of behesta1200

Cockaigne?c1335

Fortunate Islands?a1475

eutopia1553

utopia1601

horny gate (also port)1605

nonsucha1618

Americaa1631

El Dorado1788

other world1804

Cockneyland1817

cloud-cuckoo-land1824

Fiddler's Green1825

dreamland1832

Neverland1892

never-never land1900

Big Rock Candy Mountain1917

brave new world1933

Xanadu1948

Disneyland1956

ecotopia1975

the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness

heaveneOE

Edena1225

paradise?a1300

Garden of Eden1535

eutopia1553

happy land1562

Arcady1590

Hesperidesa1592

Elysiuma1616

God's own country1807

lotusland1856

Adamless Eden1876

summerland1895

Shangri-La1941

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 106 Sir Thomas More for his Eutopia can soner be remembred of me, then worthely praised of any according as the excellencie of his inuencion in that behaulf doth most iustly require.

1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Svii What Platoes penne hathe platted briefely In naked wordes,..The same haue I perfourmed fully... Wherfore not Utopie, but rather rightely My name is Eutopie [L. Eutopia]: A place of felicitie.

1610 T. Thorpe in J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Then [when Healey translated Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem, he treated] of a deuised Country scarse on earth, now of a desired Citie sure in heauen; then of Vtopia, now of Eutopia.

1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem ii. 23 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles No more..than it will prove there is a Commonwealth in Eutopia.

1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees 19 T'enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease Without great Vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the Brain.

1792 tr. J. P. Brissot de Warville New Trav. U.S.A. iii. 61 If men of wisdom and information should organize the plan of a society before it existed.., ought they to be condemned as having formed an Eutopia [Fr. une Utopie]?

1839 Corsair 31 Aug. 396/2 Having, by force or persuasion, established a grand Eutopia, Napoleonised Europe would have enjoyed the blessings of a political millennium.

1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 173/3 This presents us with one of those Utopias—or ‘Eutopias’, if we adopt the spelling favoured by some social reformers—which are so easily planned and have so little relation to reality.

1984 Jrnl. Politics 46 121 The modern utopia..insists on a vision of the good life, so that it is always a eutopia.

2010 K. M. Roemer in G. Claeys Cambr. Compan. Utopian Lit. iv. 79 If the authors and/or readers perceive the imaginary culture as being significantly better than their ‘present’ reality, then the work is a literary eutopia (or more commonly, a utopia).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eutopia
释义	eutopian. Brit. /juːˈtəʊpɪə/, /jᵿˈtəʊpɪə/, U.S. /juˈtoʊpiə/ Forms: 1500s eutopie, 1500s– eutopia. Origin: Of multiple origins. A borrowing from Latin. Apparently also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Latin Eutopia ; utopia n. Etymology: < post-classical Latin Eutopia (T. More 1516: see note) < ancient Greek εὐ- eu- comb. form + τόπος place (see topos n.) + -ία -ia suffix¹, punningly after post-classical Latin Utopia utopia n. In some later instances (e.g. in quots. 1714, 1792) apparently an error for the homophone utopia n. With recent use, compare dystopia n., and also Cacotopia n. Frequently with capital initial, especially in early use. For use in post-classical Latin compare:1516 T. More Hexastichon in Utopia sig. 2^v Vtopia priscis dicta, ob infrequentiam, Nunc ciuitatis æmula Platonicæ..Eutopia merito sum vocanda nomine [‘I was called Utopia in ancient times, because of its rarity, now I am an imitator of the Platonic state..I am rightly called by the name of Eutopia’]. A perfect (imagined or hypothetical) society or state of existence; a place of supreme happiness. Also: a literary work describing such a place; a vision of an ideal state of existence. Cf. utopia n.In early use sometimes distinguished from utopia* in being a possible, rather than purely imaginary, place of happiness (see e.g. quots. 1556, 1610). Now chiefly used synonymously with utopia, though sometimes used to emphasize the positive nature of the imagined state or society, with reference to the sense of the ancient Greek prefix (see etymology; cf. eu- comb. form). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness heaveneOE Edena1225 paradise?a1300 Garden of Eden1535 eutopia1553 happy land1562 Arcady1590 Hesperidesa1592 Elysiuma1616 God's own country1807 lotusland1856 Adamless Eden1876 summerland1895 Shangri-La1941 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 106 Sir Thomas More for his Eutopia can soner be remembred of me, then worthely praised of any according as the excellencie of his inuencion in that behaulf doth most iustly require. 1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Svii What Platoes penne hathe platted briefely In naked wordes,..The same haue I perfourmed fully... Wherfore not Utopie, but rather rightely My name is Eutopie [L. Eutopia]: A place of felicitie. 1610 T. Thorpe in J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Then [when Healey translated Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem, he treated] of a deuised Country scarse on earth, now of a desired Citie sure in heauen; then of Vtopia, now of Eutopia. 1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem ii. 23 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles No more..than it will prove there is a Commonwealth in Eutopia. 1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees 19 T'enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease Without great Vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the Brain. 1792 tr. J. P. Brissot de Warville New Trav. U.S.A. iii. 61 If men of wisdom and information should organize the plan of a society before it existed.., ought they to be condemned as having formed an Eutopia [Fr. une Utopie]? 1839 Corsair 31 Aug. 396/2 Having, by force or persuasion, established a grand Eutopia, Napoleonised Europe would have enjoyed the blessings of a political millennium. 1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Mar. 173/3 This presents us with one of those Utopias—or ‘Eutopias’, if we adopt the spelling favoured by some social reformers—which are so easily planned and have so little relation to reality. 1984 Jrnl. Politics 46 121 The modern utopia..insists on a vision of the good life, so that it is always a eutopia. 2010 K. M. Roemer in G. Claeys Cambr. Compan. Utopian Lit. iv. 79 If the authors and/or readers perceive the imaginary culture as being significantly better than their ‘present’ reality, then the work is a literary eutopia (or more commonly, a utopia). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1553
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