Oneida Community

noun

1. a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.

Example Sentences

You know, that's where all these utopian religions were founded and things like the Oneida community with mixed marriages.

From Scientific American

He was also a former member of a New York utopian colony, the Oneida Community.

From Washington Post

From the outside, the Oneida Community looked idyllic.

From Washington Post

Noyes is the one who coined the term free love, as well as complex marriage, to describe the open, although still regulated, sexual relationships practiced by the members of the Oneida community.

From Salon

For a while, the Garfield administration reacted to Guiteau in the same way as the faculty at the University of Michigan and the religious members of the Oneida Community — first by politely tolerating him, and then by blowing him off.

From Salon