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worldbreaking

worldbreaking noun: the act of destroying or throwing into disorder a world or worldview.

Noun

worldbreaking (uncountable)

  1. The act of destroying or throwing into disorder a world or worldview.
    • The article suggests that worldmaking inevitably involves worldbreaking not simply in the sense of transforming already existing world versions but in terms of the co-existence of world versions within a single location. Pussy Riot’s action ‘Mother of God, Chase Putin Away’ in the Cathedral of...2015, Férdia J. Stone-Davis, Contemporary Music Review, volume 34, number 1, page 101
    • The gist of the workshop was worldbuilding with worldbreaking in mind.2017, “Five Ways to Build and Break a World”, in Hallie Tibbetts, editor, Sirens: Collected Papers on Women in Fantasy, 2012–2015, Sedalia, Colo.: Narrate Conferences, Inc., →ISBN, page 183

Examples of worldbreaking in a sentence

  • Without being limited to children, WoW’s experiment in worldbreaking with the Cataclysm expansion could be seen as combining media influence with the force of seeing precious landscapes destroyed.2019, Alenda Y. Chang, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
  • Queer worldmaking is also straight worldbreaking.2019, Jo Lindsay Walton, Ed Luker, “Introduction: Working Late”, in Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry...

Origin of worldbreaking

From world + breaking.

Questions about worldbreaking

What does worldbreaking mean?
Worldbreaking means the act of destroying or throwing into disorder a world or worldview.
How do you use worldbreaking in a sentence?
Without being limited to children, WoW’s experiment in worldbreaking with the Cataclysm expansion could be seen as combining media influence with the force of seeing precious landscapes destroyed.
What part of speech is worldbreaking?
Worldbreaking is a noun.

Words near worldbreaking in the dictionary

  1. worldbeat
  2. worldbeater
  3. worldbeaters
  4. worldbeating
  5. worldbound
  6. worldbreaking
  7. worldbuilder
  8. worldbuilders
  9. worldbuilding
  10. worlde
  11. worlded

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