Heterocosm
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Heterocosm is a noun meaning A separate or alternative world.
Meaning
A separate or alternative world.
Example Sentences
Man, repelled by his debt to a physical mother, created an alternate reality, a heterocosm to give him the illusion of freedom.
For Teskey, the exemplary poet of hallucination is Spenser, whose Fairyland is a stable heterocosm, which a reader can enter for sustained periods without undergoing any oscillatory experience.
Word Forms
- heterocosms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metacosm, heterotopia, heterobiont, heterosystem, benthocosm, heteroecy.
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