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brave new world

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

Etymology: 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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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