other world
Realm beyond death
The other world is a realm beyond ordinary existence—the afterlife, a spirit dimension, or a supernatural plane.
Religious and mythological traditions describe various other worlds: heaven, hell, the underworld, fairyland.
Someone not of this world seems to belong to an other world.
The adjective otherworldly describes what seems to come from such a place: an otherworldly beauty, otherworldly music.
- the great beyondExistence after death
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- life after deathContinued existence posthumously
- crossing overMoving across a boundary
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
heaven · pearly gates · Avalon · Elysium · happy hunting ground · veil · limbo · purgatory · astral plane · Narnia · transmigration · Neverland · hereafter · dreamscape · cosmos · Oz · nirvana · departed
- parallel worldsparallel worlds, alternate universe, alternate reality, parallel dimension, mirror universe
realm of existence
other worldthis world
earthly realm · the here and now · physical world · mortal realm · earth