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paracosmos

noun

Etymology

From para- + cosmos.

  1. learned borrowing from κόσμοι
  2. derived from *ḱens-✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to put in order”
  3. derived from κόσμος — “order; universe; the earth, the world; decoration, ornament”
  4. inherited from cossmos — “the universe; the world”
  5. prefixed as paracosmos — “para + cosmos”

Definitions

  1. The realm of imagination

    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.
    • Such artists tend to create an imaginary world, a paracosmos where good and evil are starkly represented, where evil powers always challenge the good ones and need to be vanquished time and again.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paracosmos. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA