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deutopianization

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Etymology

From de- + utopianization.

Noun

deutopianization (usually uncountable, plural deutopianizations)

  1. making something less of a utopia, or not a utopia; making something more real, and less ideal
    • 1991, Susan Richards, Epics of Everyday Life: 2encounters in a Changing Russia:
      "In the atmosphere of demystification and deutopianization, in the impetus towards repentance and recollection, we break with a tradition of Utopian thinking which has held us in thrall for 300 years."
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