English word senses marked with topical category "Worldbuilding"
Parent categories: Narratology, Speculative fiction, Drama, Literature, Fiction, Genres, Theater, Culture, Entertainment, Writing, Artistic works, Art, Society, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 20 word senses
- alternate universe (Noun) An imaginary realm, often a variant form of the real world, depicting a different way events could have unfolded or the universe could have functioned.
- conculture (Noun) An imaginary culture, especially one associated with a conworld or conlang.
- conperson (Noun) A fictional person, especially one supposed to inhabit a conworld and speak a conlang.
- conreligion (Noun) An imaginary religion, especially one associated with a conworld or conlang.
- consociety (Noun) An imaginary society, especially one associated with a conworld or conlang.
- conworld (Noun) An imaginary world, especially one with highly-detailed cultures, languages, and geography.
- conworlding (Noun) Engaging in the creation of a conworld; worldbuilding.
- fantasy world (Noun) A person's unrealistic individual notions of the real world.
- geofiction (Noun) The conception and creation of a fictional cartographic design that is the setting of a work of fiction or of one's imagination; worldbuilding.
- omniverse (Noun) The entire set of co-existing universes, multiverses, etc.
- paracosm (Noun) A detailed imaginary world, especially one created by a child.
- paracosmos (Noun) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.
- primary world (Noun) The real world of the reader or viewer, as opposed to the imaginary "secondary world" of a work of fiction.
- secondary world (Noun) An internally consistent, fictional, fantasy world or setting that is different from the real "primary world".
- shared universe (Noun) A fictional universe encompassing multiple separate works of fiction.
- universe (Proper name) Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.
- worldbuilder (Noun) One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.
- worldbuilding (Noun) The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.
- worldmaking (Noun) The creation of a world, as for example in writing fiction.
- -verse (Suffix) Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.
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