Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)A fantasy world that serves as an ideal setting for sexually charged relationships involving a high degree of sustained emotional intimacy.

Origin

Blend of intimate + utopia; originally coined by literary scholar Elizabeth Woledge in her

Blend of intimate + utopia; originally coined by literary scholar Elizabeth Woledge in her essay Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream (2006) to describe the setting in a certain subset of slash fiction.

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Forms

plural: intimatopias
Singularintimatopia

uncountable

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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