Dictionary

heterocosm en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English (micro)cosm English heterocosm From hetero- + (micro)cosm.

Meanings

1. 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. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
   • 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. 2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 3, page 16:

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Deriveds

heterocosmic