secondary world

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An internally consistent, fictional, fantasy world or setting that is different from the real "primary world".

secondary world secondary worlds

Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien in his 1947 essay "On Fairy-Stories".

fantasy world imaginary world

primary world

high fantasy

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