Meaning of heterocosm | Babel Free

Definitions

A separate or alternative world.

Examples

“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.”

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