heterocosm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A separate or alternative world.
Example Sentences
- "Man, repelled by his debt to a physical mother, created an alternate reality, a heterocosm to give him the illusion of freedom."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English (micro)cosm English heterocosm From hetero- + (micro)cosm.