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brave new world

brave new world (plural brave new worlds)


noun 
Definition:
 
ideal or sinister future world: the world of the future, usually either a technology-based utopia or a sinister totalitarian world devoid of human values ( often ironic )

[Mid-20th century. <Brave New World (1932), novel by Aldous Huxley]

Cultural Note

Brave New World, a novel (1932) by British writer Aldous Huxley. Written partly as a response to more utopian writers of the day, it depicts a bleak and sterile future civilization in which feelings are stimulated by drugs, and babies are bred in factories.

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