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(fiction) The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction..
The purpose of worldbuilding isn't just to do a cool exercise, but to give a sense of place — and all of your thought experiments absolutely have to result in something vivid and alive.
High fantasy of the George RR Martin kind hinges on world-building. When there really is a whole world to build, and not just a historical period or a particular country, world-building does not take a few paragraphs in a short story; it takes chapters.
A sequel of this magnitude has the ability to reach higher, though, with more creative worldbuilding balancing out the dime-a-dozen pop culture references and cheap gags.
Use world building when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
World building means (fiction) The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction..
Common synonyms include conworlding, geofiction.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The purpose of worldbuilding isn't just to do a cool exercise, but to give a sense of place — and all of your thought experiments absolutely have to result in something vivid and alive.
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