[f. prec. + -ISM.]
† 1. A Utopian idea or condition. Obs.–1
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal (1673), 194. Plato indeed would have his cittizens ambidexters:… this was but one of his vtopianismes.
2. The body of views, aims, or tenets of Utopians; impossibly ideal schemes for the amelioration or perfection of social conditions, etc.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), IV. 69. Such an improvement that the stamp of Utopianism … threatens to render the acceptance of it next to hopeless.
1833. Chalmers, Const. Man (1835), I. vi. 237. The abortive enterprises of wild yet benevolent Utopianism.
1879. Kaufmann, Utopias, 258. The superiority of the most recent forms of Utopianism over previous schemes of social improvement.
