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[ZatarRufus]

I read Brave New World it seems, once a year.

Wow. Thanks for the lucid account.

I was rather sure I knew the definition of dystopian (and I was close enough) but I decided to look it up. So, off to Oxford's Dictionary of Current English and I am dismayed to find it goes from Dysprosium to Dystrophy without narry a mention of the word in question. Well, I can remedy that methinks and off to Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne. Turns out that was over-kill. She has Dysthymic to Dystychiphobia. I found the answer in The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Estraordinaryily Literate by Eugene Ehrlich.

dystopia (dis-TOH-pee-a) noun (Actually its an upside down e at the end, but I don't have one on my keyboard.)

a place real or imaginary where living conditions are considered to be as bad as possible.

Related words: dystopian adjective, dystopianism noun.