world-building
or world·build·ing
the process of developing a detailed and plausible fictional world for a novel or story, especially in science fiction, fantasy, and video games: Drawing a convincing map with boundaries and landscape features is a natural starting point for world-building.
Origin of world-building
1- Also world build·ing .
Other words from world-building
- world-build, verb (used without object)
Words Nearby world-building
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How to use world-building in a sentence
A few days spent upon the rim and in a launch upon the lake will give glimpses of world-building features and nature-history.
Your National Parks | Enos A. MillsNot long past, a well-dressed Italian of good appearance and address rented an office in the World Building.
Courts and Criminals | Arthur TrainSocialism is henceforth a theory of social evolution, not a scheme of world-building; a spirit, not a thing.
Socialism | John SpargoIn chemistry, a simple little ingredient may give culminating power to a world-building or a world-destroying compound.
Menticulture | Horace FletcherThis principle of the crystalline formation of the elements is the basis of world building.
The Universe a Vast Electric Organism | George Woodward Warder
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