What does heterocosm mean?
Heterocosm means A separate or alternative world..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A separate or alternative world..
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.
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Heterocosm means A separate or alternative world..
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Man, repelled by his debt to a physical mother, created an alternate reality, a heterocosm to give him the illusion of freedom.
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