secondary world
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An internally consistent, fictional, fantasy world or setting that is different from the real "primary world".
Example Sentences
- "What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside."
- "From beginning to end of the fiction we are in the secondary world."
- "The girls stress the internal logic of the Secondary World as the crucial point for fantasy pleasure. Mastering the elaborate structure of the Secondary World is part and parcel of the reader's quest to experience a text such as Harry Potter, although the central hero would identify the text as masculine."
- "The world to which the protagonist belongs is the 'primary' or 'domestic' world. The secondary world is often a binary opposite of the primary world; an inverse, or mirror-image of the consensual reality of the text."
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Synonyms
fantasy world
imaginary world