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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).

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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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Phenotyping the obesities: reality or utopia?ReviewReviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023Portincasa P, Frühbeck GDOI: 10.1007/s11154-023-09829-x
Seeking utopia: Psychologies' waves toward decoloniality.ReviewAmerican journal of community psychology · 2023Rodriguez Ramirez D, Langhout RDDOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12695
Marching Toward Utopia: Mentor-Mentee Relationship Devoid of Race or Gender Considerations.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2023Garcia-Marcinkiewicz A, Reece-Nguyen T, Nafiu OODOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006621
Scientific Utopia III: Crowdsourcing Science.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Uhlmann EL, Ebersole CR, Chartier CR et al.DOI: 10.1177/1745691619850561
Progress test utopia.Perspectives on medical education · 2018van der Vleuten C, Freeman A, Collares CFDOI: 10.1007/s40037-018-0413-1
Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives.Religion · 2024Rots APDOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2024.2362069
Reliable Serological Diagnostic Tests for Arboviruses: Feasible or Utopia?ReviewTrends in microbiology · 2020Kerkhof K, Falconi-Agapito F, Van Esbroeck M et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2019.11.005
Hormone replacement therapy in cancer survivors: Utopia?ReviewCritical reviews in oncology/hematology · 2018Angioli R, Luvero D, Armento G et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2018.02.005

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Contents

Etymology and history
Definitions and interpretations
Varieties
Mythical and religious utopias
Golden Age
Scheria
Arcadia
The Biblical Garden of Eden
The Land of Cockaigne
The Peach Blossom Spring
Datong
Ketumati
Modern utopias
Social and economic utopias
Intentional Communities and Experimental Living
Science and technology
Ecological
Feminism
Intentional communities and experimental living
Critical Utopia
Cultural legacy
See also
Further reading
Notes
References
External links

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.