paracosmos
paracosmos noun: the realm of imagination; an imaginary world.
Noun
paracosmos (plural paracosmoses)
- The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.
- 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
- 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
- Synonyms:
- paracosm
Synonyms of paracosmos
Forms of paracosmos
| plural | paracosmoses |
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Origin of paracosmos
From para- + cosmos.
Questions about paracosmos
- What does paracosmos mean?
- Paracosmos means the realm of imagination; an imaginary world.
- What part of speech is paracosmos?
- Paracosmos is a noun.
- What is the plural of paracosmos?
- The plural of paracosmos is paracosmoses.
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