dystopia
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- A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
- Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.
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From dys- + -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), based on utopia being reinterpreted as eu-topia.
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