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Laputan

La·pu·tan [ lə pyt'n ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
unrealistic: concentrating on absurdly impractical ideas or projects, often to the exclusion of things that need to be done

[Mid-19th century. <Laputa, island in Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift whose people were like this]
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