worldbuilding
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.
Uncountable
noun
Scientific research into the creation of the Earth and its geological features.
Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The purpose of worldbuilding isn't just to do a cool exercise, but to give a sense of place — and all of your thought experiments absolutely have to result in something vivid and alive."
- "High fantasy of the George RR Martin kind hinges on world-building. When there really is a whole world to build, and not just a historical period or a particular country, world-building does not take a few paragraphs in a short story; it takes chapters."
- "A sequel of this magnitude has the ability to reach higher, though, with more creative worldbuilding balancing out the dime-a-dozen pop culture references and cheap gags."