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Discover LudwigThe word "cacotopia" is not a real word in English.
It may have been coined as a literary term or as a neologism, but it is not part of standard English. Example sentence: My recent vacation was like a kind of cacotopia, with things constantly going wrong.
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cacotopia
noun
A dystopia; a worst possible world.
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And, because this virtual weather won't let up anytime soon, I'd like to propose classing the precise dystopia of "Black Mirror" as a cacotopia, by way of putting a name to the sensation it delivers.
Anthony Burgess, discussing "Nineteen Eighty-Four," favored the term on account of its gagging acrid sound: "I prefer to call Orwell's imaginary society a cacotopia — on the lines of cacophony or cacodemon.
Cacotopia is a synonym for dystopia coined, in the eighteenth century, from the Greek kakós, meaning "bad".
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