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Small clearly imagined ideal community vignette: modest accessible homes around shared green garden, clean water fountain, relaxed people helping one another; airy cloud-like edge signals imagined place, no slogans, technology fantasy or dense city panorama.

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utopia

yoo-TOH-pee-uh/juːˈtəʊpiə/

An imagined perfect society or place.

Etymology

uGreeknot

+topiaGreekplace

Literally “no place,” Utopia named Thomas More’s imaginary island with perfect social and political arrangements. Its name then became a general term for an imagined perfect society.

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