Arts & Letters
Which 1516 book coined the word for an ideal society?
- Utopia
- The Prince
- City of God
The answer is Utopia. Thomas More's Utopia — 'no place'.
A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its residents. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, which describes a fictional island society in the New World, but some utopian visions predate it.
Wikipedia · Utopia