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er·e·whon·i·an \|erə|(h) wänēən, -wōn-\ adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Erewhon (anagram of nowhere), fictitious land described in the utopian novel Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler died 1902 British writer + English -ian : of or suggestive of the utopia described in the book Erewhon whose people dealt with disease as a crime and destroyed machinery lest machines destroy them < an Erewhonian fear of automation > |