Etymograph

English

intimatopia

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.

A blend of intimate + utopia

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

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Latin intus ‘within’

Latin intimus ‘inmost, innermost, most intimate’

Latin intimō ‘to put or bring into, to impress, to make…’

Latin intimātus

English intimate

Ancient Greek οὐ ‘not’

Ancient Greek τόπος ‘place, location’

New Latin Ūtopia

English utopia

The story

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.

Today it means

noun A fantasy world that serves as an ideal setting for sexually charged relationships involving a high degree of sustained emotional intimacy.

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