dystopia

noun

a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror

state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

Roots

dysdys- · Greek · bad, ill topostop- · Greek · place ia-ia · Greek · state, condition

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