antiworld

American  

[an-tee-wurld, an-tahy-] / ˈæn tiˌwɜrld, ˈæn taɪ- /

noun

1. Physics. Often anti-worlds. a hypothetical world composed of antimatter.

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antiworld British  

/ ˈæntɪˌwɜːld /

noun

1. a hypothetical or supposed world or universe composed of antimatter

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Etymology

Origin of antiworld

anti- + world

Example Sentences

His collection Antiworld gave rise to a famous performance at the Taganka theatre, Moscow, in 1965.

From The Guardian

Each is the other's antiworld: Japan an exclusive, homogeneous Asian ocean-and-island realm, tribal, intricately compact, suppressive, fiercely focused; and the U.S. a giant of huge distances, expansive, messy, inclusive, wasteful, rich, individualist, multicultural, chaotically diverse.

From Time Magazine Archive

California, he was implying, is the name we give our hopes and highest fantasies: an antiworld of sorts, governed by an antireality principle and driven by an antigravitational push.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, that sort of hypothesis is merely a fantastic antiworld.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each time a photograph was made, he believed, another thin layer of the subject's being would be stripped off to become not life as before but a membrane of memory in a sort of translucent antiworld.

From Time Magazine Archive