Paracosmos

Quick meaning: Paracosmos is a noun meaning (rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.

Meaning

(rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.

Example Sentences

Day dreaming and fantasies which are flights into the paracosmos, are an antithesis of creativity which is the most intense land of action.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• paracosmoses

Synonyms for paracosmos

Depending on context, synonyms include paracosm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paracosm, metacosm, psychosphere, imaginarium, realm, dreamworld.

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