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brave new world

The definition of brave new world is an imaginary technology-based society that is unkind and lacks creativity, referred to in Aldous Huxley's 1932 book The Brave New World.

(noun)

An example of brave new world is a future where people are completely reliant on machines and computers and no longer care for each other.

See brave new world in Webster's New World College Dictionary

a place or situation regarded as like that of a hypothetical future society in being variously dehumanized, disorienting, technologically revolutionary, etc.

Origin: after Brave New World, title of dystopian novel (1932) by A. Aldous (Leonard) Huxley, an allusion to a line in The Tempest (V, i) by William Shakespeare

See brave new world in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A world or realm of radically transformed existence, especially one in which technological progress has both positive and negative results.

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Origin: After Brave New World, title of a novel by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

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