What's the difference between paradise and utopia?

Paradise


Definition:

  • (n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
  • (n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death.
  • (n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
  • (n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
  • (n.) A churchyard or cemetery.
  • (v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Losing paradise: the people displaced by atomic bombs, and now climate change Read more Climate change won’t be the only source of tension.
  • (2) "If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise.
  • (3) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (4) An otitis media with effusion algorithm developed by Paradise et al and tested by Cantekin et al has become the basis for many studies of otitis media.
  • (5) Spain is another go-getters’ paradise, it seems: with half an entire generation out of work, self-employment among the young has surged.
  • (6) Elements of behaviour were described for the paradise fish on the basis of the topography, location and orientation of the animal observed in various seminatural and laboratory environments.
  • (7) It seemed only a matter of time before a small number of them returned to see if it was possible to recreate what was described by their lawyer, Richard Gifford, as "paradise lost".
  • (8) People are now calling Paradise Square Hell Square.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children collect items from among the debris of a school for the deaf and mute, destroyed in what activists said were overnight US-led air strikes in Raqqa.
  • (9) • A chimp-trekking permit costs $90pp rwandatourism.com ) 12 Go barefoot in paradise: Likoma island, Malawi Kaya Mawa resort on Likoma Island, Malawi.
  • (10) If it does, give us the formula and make us a paradise country."
  • (11) "They tell me I am a great father, and that I will go straight to paradise."
  • (12) Okinawans finally want their sub-tropical island paradise back.
  • (13) There is an attempted raid on Ukraine, not from Moscow but Brussels, grabbing it by the neck and dragging it to paradise," he tweeted.
  • (14) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
  • (15) "He is the best of the best, a pure soul, he is in the best paradise.
  • (16) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
  • (17) It's wonderful, actually, having scrutiny of the work, especially coming from New Zealand, where there's no reviewing culture at all, so London just seems like paradise."
  • (18) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
  • (19) With beautiful parks, a world class zoo, great public transportation and year round festivals this place would be paradise if it were not for the sweltering summers.
  • (20) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.

Utopia


Definition:

  • (n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
  • (n.) Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the tech-utopia of the on-demand economy it is said all can have prizes.
  • (2) We need to fight might and main against those Conservatives who see Brexit as a mandate to introduce a free-market utopia at the expense of working people.
  • (3) Even at its point of greatest influence, then, there was resistance to the politically laden and overdetermining visions of utopia in which modernisation theorists like Rostow traded.
  • (4) He says it’s a fully realised democratic utopia, like the Barcelona admired by Orwell during the Spanish civil war, and tears run down his cheeks when he leaves.
  • (5) Wikipedia would like to believe that it is the good face of the 21st century, a digital utopia, the guardian of the original promise of the internet.
  • (6) This was a galaxy-spanning utopia whose name was chosen for its self-deprecating modesty, rather than something grandiose like the Federation or the Empire.
  • (7) Camille Carnoz of the collective, said: “Today is symbolic, it’s about giving people a dream, showing us what a city could look like without cars, a type of utopia.
  • (8) They don’t see our battle against people’s everyday problems, that life is not a utopia.” I need capitalism to work, because I have to levy taxes to attend to the serious problems we have As in other countries in the region, an economic boom largely fuelled by China’s growing need for food has lifted vast numbers out of poverty, down from 40 to 12% in a decade.
  • (9) The president portrayed a utopia – peace, security, a bright future for children.
  • (10) As the historian Samuel Moyn has argued in his book The Last Utopia, it was not until the late 1970s that human rights became a major force in international relations.
  • (11) But to Ruqayah, it was a utopia I could never get used to hearing people talk about martyrdom.
  • (12) In shifting the focus of regulation from reining in institutional and corporate malfeasance to perpetual electronic guidance of individuals, algorithmic regulation offers us a good-old technocratic utopia of politics without politics.
  • (13) Across the hallway at the BFI this weekend, another post-screening discussion of the documentary Utopia London , including Owen Hatherley, tackled how the capital's postwar housing experiments could be redeemed for the 21st century.
  • (14) At the time, Birol told the Guardian that constraining global warming to moderate levels would be "only a nice utopia" unless drastic action was taken.
  • (15) One called A Prophecy for 1973 imagines a future utopia without poverty and hunger, which seems as distant today as in 1873 when it was probably composed.
  • (16) He refers to it as an "action-steering utopia of the psychoanalytic process".
  • (17) If I could launch just one experiment, it may well be that I temporarily banish all straight men from the planet for six months (don't worry – I would send you to planet Jock where you could drive around on quad bikes or in Porsches, and in the evening there would be poker and beer), and see if this peaceful utopia occurred.
  • (18) Not just Broadchurch but The Fall and Top of the Lake, both on BBC2 (and both BPG nominees), Utopia and Southcliffe on Channel 4 and intriguing one-offs such as BBC2's The Wipers Times, co-written by Ian Hislop, another BPG winner.
  • (19) "We have too many languages and cultures, indeed, the idea of an unique [European] newspaper is for now just a utopia.
  • (20) "Our contemporary impotence" comes exactly from this: on the one hand, we find the old left melancholy when it comes to waging concrete struggles in the existing institutions and in the streets and squares, and on the other hand, there is the masturbation on a utopia that will never come true.