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From retro- + -topia. A nonce word until its use by Zygmunt Bauman in his book Retrotopia (2017).
First known use, by meaning
- 1990s An ideal society inspired by a premodern one.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
retrotopia
Today it means: An ideal society inspired by a premodern one. Full definition →
First used 1990s