From More's 'Utopia' — Greek for 'no-place,' punning on 'good-place,' encoding an ideal that cannot exist.
Modeled on or aiming for a state of ideal perfection, especially in social and political organization; impractically idealistic.
From 'Utopia,' the title of Thomas More's 1516 Latin work describing an ideal island society. More coined the name from Greek 'ou' (οὐ, not) + 'topos' (τόπος, place) — literally 'no-place' or 'nowhere.' The title was a scholarly pun: 'Utopia' also resembles 'eutopia' (εὐτοπία), from Greek 'eu' (good
More wrote 'Utopia' in Latin as a work of political satire, not a sincere blueprint. The island's narrator is named 'Raphael Hythloday' — 'Hythloday' from Greek 'hythlos' (nonsense) + 'daios' (knowing), meaning 'expert in nonsense.' The river running through Utopia is called 'Anydrus' (without