utopianism

[ yoo-toh-pee-uh-niz-uhm ]

noun(sometimes initial capital letter)

the views or habit of mind of a utopian; impracticable schemes of political or social reform.

Origin of utopianism

First recorded in 1655–65; utopian + -ism

The show’s focus on a space race between the USA and USSR that never ended posits that such a space race would have led to a world where the dial was turned just a couple of clicks more toward utopianism.
One Good Thing: For All Mankind explores a world where humans lived on the moon — in the 1970s | Emily VanDerWerff | March 19, 2021 | Vox
Its dramatization of the clash between utopianism and geopolitical catastrophe becomes more potent with every passing year.
How to Watch Watchmen | Douglas Wolk | January 16, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
And the philosophical syndicalism that was born of this union combines utopianism and anarchism.
Violence and the Labor Movement | Robert Hunter
It is by answering possible objections to utopianism that I shall best be able to unfold Egeria's philosophy of education.
What Is and What Might Be | Edmond Holmes
I make this appeal at the risk of incurring only contempt for my utopianism.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) | John Ruskin

In the estimation of socialists to-day his work was of a very high order, “not mere utopianism.”
Browning and His Century | Helen Archibald Clarke
It consists of animistic, theological and dualistic habits of thought, issuing in utopianism and non-materialistic idealism.
Socialism: Positive and Negative | Robert Rives La Monte

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