Cacotopia

   

Cacotopia, a word coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1818 and also used by his associate, John Stuart Mill, who coined the more successful synonym, dystopia.

The prefix caco- means "the worst."

Variant spelling: Kakotopia.

See also: Utopia, Dystopia es:cacotopía


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