antidystopian

antidystopian

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ dystopian

Adjective

antidystopian (comparative more antidystopian, superlative most antidystopian)

1. Opposing a dystopia.
   • 1996, George Thomas Kurian, ‎Graham Thomas Tate Molitor, Encyclopedia of the future (volume 1, page 212)

     However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.

   • 2009, David M. Kaplan, Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, page 140:

     This is not a democratic program but a romantic antidystopian one, the sort of thing that is already foreshadowed in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground and various back-to-nature ideologies.