worldbuilding
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worldbuilding (uncountable)
- (fiction) The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in high fantasy and science fiction.
- 2013 February 8, Charlie Jane Anders, “7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding”, in io9[1]:
- 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.
- 2015 May 20, Natasha Pulley, “Fantasy cannot build its imaginary worlds in short fiction”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- 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.
- (obsolete) Scientific research into the creation of the Earth and its geological features.
- (obsolete) The world of imagination of novelists, poets, etc.
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act or process of building of a fictional world
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- “What is 'World-Building'? And how do you spell it?”, in Merriam-Webster[3], 2016