imaginary world

collocation in English

meaningsofimaginaryandworld

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imaginary
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmædʒ.ɪ.nər.i/us
/ɪˈmædʒ.ə.ner.i/
Something that is imaginary is created by and exists only in ...
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world
noun
uk
/wɜːld/us
/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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(Definition ofimaginaryandworldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimaginary world

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Theimaginaryworldhas no propositional link with the actual one.
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What else can we say about theimaginaryworldof these early plays?
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Like an architect making a drawing, these stories describe a person venturing into animaginaryworldof another size.
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It is not animaginaryworld.
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Especially in the production of postcards thisimaginaryworldis continued, eagerly bought by tourists who thus carry on and cherish illusionary images of reality.
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In the other kind of set-up, the speaker is not relying on what is known about the actual world, but creating a new,imaginaryworld.
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Since the truth relation between animaginaryworldand the actual world remains vague, the conditional does not implicate anything about the factual world.
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To her, the increasingly guilty pleasure she took in retreating into her ownimaginaryworldand characters was a form of false worship.
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But the invocation of such phenomenal impossibilities in science is not an open invitation to phenomenal reconstrual of animaginaryworldthat is forever empirically impossible.
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I rather like being propelled into this kind ofimaginaryworld.
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Middle-earth is not animaginaryworld.
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Myths, rituals and monuments help in remembering their deeds, in defining the organizing anchor points of the constitutive mythical geography and in making thisimaginaryworldpresent in ordinary life.
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Living in animaginaryworld, they presented a pathetic spectacle, cut off by snobbery from those whom they should have been leading and by race from mainstream white society.
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It is not something which happens in the real world; it is something which happens only in theimaginaryworld.
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The soldiers became characters in theirimaginaryworld.
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This knowledge causes the narrator to become disheartened as theimaginaryworldis destroyed.
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The games are set in animaginaryworldwith strong fantasy elements.
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He destroys the costume and all computers he was using in hisimaginaryworld.
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It tells a story about theimaginaryworldof dolls when no one is watching.
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The nature of magic within animaginaryworldis an example of this distinction.
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They created animaginaryworldof entertainment that hovered between 1880 and 1930.
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Her work deals predominately with theimaginaryworldof childhood and nature.
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This understanding and develop the art aims to evaluate theimaginaryworldof the common man.
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