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primary worlds

primary worlds is the plural of primary world.

Meaning of primary world

Noun

primary world (plural primary worlds)

  1. The real world of the reader or viewer, as opposed to the imaginary "secondary world" of a work of fiction.
    • What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief...1947, J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories”, in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, page 60

Questions about primary worlds

What is primary worlds the plural of?
Primary worlds is the plural of primary world.

Words near primary worlds in the dictionary

  1. primary valence
  2. primary valences
  3. primary work
  4. primary works
  5. primary world
  6. primary worlds
  7. primarying
  8. primas
  9. primase
  10. primases
  11. primastic

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