Dystopia
(noun)
An imagined place or state in which everything is bad or difficult, typically characterized by poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or environmental degradation.
Origin:
From the greek word "dys" meaning bad or difficult, and "topos" meaning place, it refers to an imagined place or state in which everything is bad or difficult, typically characterized by poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or environmental degradation.
Examples:
- The novel portrayed a dystopian future where society had collapsed.
- The society they lived in was a dystopia where citizens had no rights.
- The city was a dystopia where poverty and crime were rampant.
- The book was set in a dystopian society where the government controlled everything.
- The dystopia was a world where the environment had been destroyed and resources were scarce.