Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable)The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.

    Weltenbau

    мирострои́тельствоmirostroítelʹstvo, мирострое́ниеmirostrojénije, построение мираpostrojenije mira

    світотворенняsvitotvorennja

  2. (obsolete, uncountable)Scientific research into the creation of the Earth and its geological features.

  3. (obsolete, uncountable)The world of imagination of novelists, poets, etc.

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act or process of building of a fictional world:
Русский
By meaning 1
act or process of building of a fictional world:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act or process of building of a fictional world:

Origin

From world + building.

From world + building.

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