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brave new world

noun

Etymology

From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, itself a reference to a line from The Tempest (1610), see quotations.

Definitions

  1. A better, often utopian (future) world.

    • O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
    • Will digital broadcasting, 'mega-channel-land', change everything or nothing? Will it be a brave new world, or simply more of the same?

  2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.

    • In this brave new world, the IMF and other Western financial institutions dictated radical free trade "shock treatment" to both developing nations and the former USSR ...

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA