Where Did the Word Utopianism Come from?

He coined the word 'utopia' from the Greek ou-topos meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere'. It was a pun - the almost identical Greek word eu-topos means 'a good place'.

What is an example of utopianism?

Utopia Examples

The Garden of Eden, an aesthetically pleasing place in which there was "no knowledge of good and evil" Heaven, a religious supernatural place where God, angels and human souls live in harmony. Shangri-La, in James Hilton's Lost Horizon, a mystical harmonious valley.

How did utopianism start?

The 19th century is said to have been a golden age for American utopianism. ... Most of the earliest such communities were religious. Beginning in the late 18th century, a Protestant sect known as the Shakers established more than a dozen communal settlements in the eastern United States.

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