|erə|(h) wänēən, -wōn- adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Erewhon (anagram of nowhere ), fictitious land described in the utopian novel Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler died 1902 British writer + English -ian
: of or suggestive of the utopia described in the book Erewhon whose people dealt with disease as a crime and destroyed machinery lest machines destroy them
an Erewhonian fear of automation