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noun. The definition of a dystopia is an imaginary place where the state of being is very bad or oppressive, the opposite of a utopia. An example of a dystopia is the world imagined in The Handmaidâs Tale by Margaret Atwood.
The prefix caco means the worst.. Both words were created to contrast utopia, a word coined by Sir Thomas More to describing an ideal place or society. Utopia combined the Greek-derived eu (good) + topos (place).Dystopia combined the dys, Greek word for bad or negative with topos. Thus, meaning bad place.ystopia. A dystopia (or alternatively cacotopia) is a fictional society, usually portrayed as existing in a future time, when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror. Science fiction, particularly post-apocalyptic science fiction and cyberpunk, often feature dystopias.