What does paracosmos mean?
Paracosmos means (rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world..
Day dreaming and fantasies which are flights into the paracosmos, are an antithesis of creativity which is the most intense land of action.
More simply stated, the paracosmos reflects a writer's interest in examining a (generally) rather small number of persons, or types of persons, in a variety of circumstances and relationships: he has marked out a portion of the world as his own and works upon it to make it his.
Such artists tend to create an imaginary world, a paracosmos where good and evil are starkly represented, where evil powers always challenge the good ones and need to be vanquished time and again.
Use paracosmos when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Paracosmos means (rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world..
Common synonyms include paracosm.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Day dreaming and fantasies which are flights into the paracosmos, are an antithesis of creativity which is the most intense land of action.
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