Utopia
Etymology
Coined by Thomas More as the title of his 1516 book, from Greek "ou-topos" meaning "no place" — a deliberate pun on "eu-topos," "good place." More’s ambiguity was intentional: the perfect society is also the one that exists nowhere. That double meaning still shadows every earnest use of the word.
noun · /yoo-TOH-pee-uh/
An imagined society of perfect or ideal conditions.
What it names
For a vision of the ideal social order — with a built-in hint that it may be unattainable.
Example
The commune was founded as a rural utopia and dissolved within five years.
Related idea
A utopia is the ideal society; a dystopia is its nightmarish inverse — and both were coined on the same Greek root "topos," place.