fictional world
Made-up story realm
A fictional world is an imagined universe created for a story, game, or other creative work—the setting and its rules, history, and inhabitants.
Middle-earth and Westeros are fictional worlds.
The term often emphasizes internal consistency: The fictional world she built had its own languages and calendars.
Fans may know a fictional world's geography better than their own.
- alternate historyGenre reimagining past outcomes
- dystopianDepicting oppressive imagined societies
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- geographyStudy of places
- NarniaFictional snow-covered kingdom
Middle-earth · wonderland · novel · culture · language · horror · architecture · sandbox · shared universe · extended universe · fauna · magic systems · technology · mythology · headcanon · short story · flora · protagonist
- franchisesfranchise, Star Wars, franchising, franchises, franchisor
- literary settingssetting, narrative setting, Hogwarts, Narnia, Middle-earth
- narrative elementssetting, scene, location, backdrop, flashback
- fantasywizard, witch, magic, dragon, elf
- fictionnovel, novels, novella, novellas, short story
- worldsearth, planet, realm, kingdom, dimension
fictional worldreality
What actually exists
actuality · real life · objective reality · lived experience · the here and now
fictional worldnonfiction
Literature about real events
historical record · true story · eyewitness account · empirical data