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Utopia

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means an imagined place or state in which everything is perfect
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Stage 1 of 2
ou topos
Greek · ancient
"no place"
literally no place, from ou (not) and topos (place)
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Stage 2 of 2
utopia
English · 1516
"an imagined perfect society"
coined by Thomas More as the name of his fictional ideal society
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