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in-universe

in-universe adjective: referring to a perspective or view from the context of a fictional world, in contrast to a perspective from the real world.

Adjective

in-universe (not comparable)

  1. Referring to a perspective or view from the context of a fictional world, in contrast to a perspective from the real world.
    • Referring to Lord Voldemort as the most feared person in the world is an in-universe classification in the Harry Potter series.
    • And in Mass Effect 2, you can find a secret dossier on the synthetic Geth sniper called Legion, which was created solely to preserve its species. This dossier shows that this apparently serious Geth spends a lot of processing time playing video games — ranging from playing as a Level 612...2017, Jordan Erica Webber, Daniel Griliopoulos, “On utilitarianism: BioWare's baddies”, in Ten Things Video Games can Teach Us, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 243

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Forms of in-universe

alternative formin universe

Questions about in-universe

What does in-universe mean?
In-universe means referring to a perspective or view from the context of a fictional world, in contrast to a perspective from the real world.
What part of speech is in-universe?
In-universe is an adjective.

Words near in-universe in the dictionary

  1. in-trays
  2. in-tree
  3. in-trees
  4. in-turn
  5. in-turns
  6. in-universe
  7. in-vehicle
  8. in-vitro
  9. in-vitro fertilisation
  10. in-vitro fertilisations
  11. in-vitro fertilization

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