Etymology

techno-utopian

Today it means: Believing that technological advances will create a utopia. Full definition →

English utopian ← New Latin Ūtopia ← Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*teḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tetḱ-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*téḱ-sneh₂
  4. Ancient Greekτέχνη (tékhnē)
  5. Ancient Greekτεχνο- (tekhno-)
  6. Englishtechno-
  7. Ancient Greekοὐ (ou)
  8. Ancient Greekτόπος (tópos)
  9. New LatinŪtopia
  10. Englishutopia
  11. Englishutopian
  12. English todaytechno-utopian

From techno- + utopian.

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