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paracosmos en · NOUN

Etymology

From para- + cosmos.

Meanings

1. (rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.
   • 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. 1975, Roger Johnson, Editha S. Neumann, Guy T. Trail, editors, Molière and the Commonwealth of Letters: Patrimony and Posterity, University Press of Mississippi, page 421:
   • Day dreaming and fantasies which are flights into the paracosmos, are an antithesis of creativity which is the most intense land of action. 1961, The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 117, page 96:
   • 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. 2011, Claire Golomb, The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The Role of Art, Magic and Dreams in Child Development, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 80:

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paracosm