"heterocosm" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae",
          "text": "Man, repelled by his debt to a physical mother, created an alternate reality, a heterocosm to give him the illusion of freedom.",
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          "ref": "2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 3, page 16",
          "text": "For Teskey, the exemplary poet of hallucination is Spenser, whose Fairyland is a stable heterocosm, which a reader can enter for sustained periods without undergoing any oscillatory experience.",
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