thumb|This is the woodcut for Utopia's map as it appears in Thomas More's Utopia printed by Dirk Martens in December 1516 (the first edition).
Utopia is a fictional island described in Thomas More's 1516 book of the same name, depicted in an imaginary map that accompanied the original publication. The work matters because it introduced a influential literary and philosophical concept of an idealized society, establishing a genre that has shaped how people imagine and discuss alternative social arrangements.
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thumb|This is the woodcut for Utopia's map as it appears in Thomas More's Utopia printed by Dirk Martens in December 1516 (the first edition).
A utopia ( ) is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its residents. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, which describes a fictional island society in the New World, but some utopian visions predate it.
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