Meanings
comparative more antidystopian · superlative most antidystopian
- Opposing a dystopia.
However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.
1996, George Thomas Kurian, Graham Thomas Tate Molitor, Encyclopedia of the future, volume 1, page 2121 more example
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.
2009, David M. Kaplan, Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, page 140
Origin
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