The purpose of worldbuilding isn't just to do a cool exercise, but to give a sense of place — and all of your thought experiments absolutely have to result in something vivid and alive.
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Worldbuilding
Synonyms for "worldbuilding" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
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5 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 16 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- աշխարհկառուցում noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Bulgarian
1 entries- светоизграждане noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Czech
1 entries- světotvorba noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Esperanto
2 entries- konstruo de la mondo noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
- mirostrojeno noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Finnish
1 entries- maailmanrakennus noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
French
2 entries- cosmopoésie noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
- worldbuilding noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
German
1 entries- Weltenbau noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Kazakh
1 entries- миростроение noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Korean
1 entries- 세계 설정 noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- миростроение noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Polish
1 entries- światotwórstwo noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Russian
4 entries- мирострое́ние noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
- мирострои́тельство noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
- построение мира noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
- создание мира noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Scots
1 entries- warldbiggin noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Tagalog
1 entries- paggawa ng daigdig noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Ukrainian
1 entries- світотворення noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Uzbek
1 entries- mirastroeniе noun (act or process of building of a fictional world)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
High fantasy of the George RR Martin kind hinges on world-building. When there really is a whole world to build, and not just a historical period or a particular country, world-building does not take a few paragraphs in a short story; it takes chapters.
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A sequel of this magnitude has the ability to reach higher, though, with more creative worldbuilding balancing out the dime-a-dozen pop culture references and cheap gags.
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