Meaning

(rare) Someone who visits many places..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Someone who visits many places.
2. (rare) Existing or occurring in many places.

Example Sentences

Through which our polytopian and raconteur finds romance and the thrill of the highly unusual […]

Alex: […] Despite outward appearances, I am an artist, not an intrepid polytopian. / Fanny: Oh, Alex, for goodness sakes, yes you are. You're one of the original polytopians, don't dissemble. / Alex: Well, yes, I am. High adventure and stupefying risk are my metier.

But what we need just as desperately is a new and different politics, the politics of new spaces of liberty (to paraphrase Negri and Guattari), a politics capable of acknowledging that a true solidarity and an absolute singularity, far from being mutually exclusive, are in fact conditioned on each other in a polytopian world. A global culture would exist only if it permitted—"systemically," as it were — the coming into being of communities of such absolute singularities.

As the women discover their own polytopian tendencies to be the structuring principle of the new world of the future, their celebration of the language of faraway places turns out to have unexpected totalitarian powers: […]

The suggestion that Despard's ideas were utopian (in the sense that utopia = no place) was, however, false. It would be more accurate to say that they arose from many places; they were polytopian.

Word Forms

• polytopians
• more polytopian
• most polytopian

Synonyms for polytopian

When Should You Use Polytopian?

Use polytopian when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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