imaginary place

Noun
  1. A place that exists only in imagination;
    A place said to exist in fictional or religious writings (synset 105633662)
    is a type of: imagination, imaginativeness, vision - the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
    subtypes:
    • afterworld - the place where you are after you die
    • annwfn, annwn - (Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies
    • asgard - (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes
    • atlantis - according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake
    • brobdingnag - a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous
    • cloud-cuckoo-land - an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
    • cockaigne - (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
    • el dorado, eldorado - an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers
    • faerie, faery, fairyland - the enchanted realm of fairies
    • heaven - the abode of God and the angels
    • elysium - a place or condition of ideal happiness
    • hades, hell, infernal region, netherworld, scheol, underworld - (religion) the world of the dead
    • hell, infernal region, inferno, nether region, perdition, pit - (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
    • houyhnhnms - a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos
    • laputa - a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected
    • lilliput - a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people
    • limbo - (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
    • limbo - an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
    • midgard - (Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology
    • dreamland, dreamworld, never-never land - a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
    • purgatory - (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
    • ruritania - an imaginary kingdom in central Europe; often used as a scene for intrigue and romance
    • spirit world - any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide
    • sion, utopia, zion - an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
    • wonderland - an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders
    same as: fictitious place, mythical place

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