fairylands
Pixie dwelling places
Fairylands are enchanted realms where fairies and other magical creatures dwell—the stuff of folklore and children's stories.
By extension, any place of exceptional beauty or wonder may be called a fairyland: The garden was transformed into a fairyland of lights for the wedding.
The plural suggests multiple such places, whether in fantasy literature or whimsical description.
Inherited cultural narratives
- legendsTraditional stories or icons
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
- faeOtherworldly Celtic beings
- spritesTiny supernatural beings
pixies · brownies · changelings · yokai · peri · nymphs · dryads · sylphs
Imaginative mental wandering
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- fictionImagined narrative work
- taleSpoken or written narrative
- storyAccount of events
worldbuilding · escapism · Narnia · Neverland · Oz · Middle-earth · Avalon · storybook
Playfully fanciful or erratic
- magicalPossessing supernatural power
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- shimmeringGleaming with wavering light
- glimmeringFaintly and unsteadily luminous
dreamlike · spellbound · bewitched · charmed · fantastical · otherworldly · iridescent · gossamer
folklore
Inherited cultural narratives
sprites · pixies · brownies · changelings · yokai · peri · nymphs · dryads · sylphs · elves
fantasy
Imaginative mental wandering
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- fictionImagined narrative work
- taleSpoken or written narrative
story · worldbuilding · escapism · Narnia · Neverland · Oz · Middle-earth · Avalon · storybook · make-believe
whimsical
Playfully fanciful or erratic
- magicalPossessing supernatural power
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- shimmeringGleaming with wavering light
glimmering · dreamlike · spellbound · bewitched · charmed · fantastical · otherworldly · iridescent · gossamer · moonlit
kingdom
Monarch's ruled territory
glade · hollow · dell · bower · grotto · burrow · thicket · clearing · copse · glen
paradise
Ideal, blissful place
blissful · Edenic · halcyon · bucolic · pastoral · sylvan · Xanadu · nirvana · sublime · serene
fairylandsreality
What actually exists
everyday life · earthly realm · the here and now · terra firma
fairylandswastelands
Uncultivable, empty lands
hellscapes · dystopias · hellholes · industrial zones · war zones