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world-building
[ wurld-bil-ding ]
noun
- the process of developing a detailed and plausible fictional world for a novel or story, especially in science fiction, fantasy, and video games:
Drawing a convincing map with boundaries and landscape features is a natural starting point for world-building.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- world-build verb (used without object)
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of world-building1
Example Sentences
But in this age of expensive and overwrought world-building, it’s Ellison’s experiential care with well-worn material that delivers the goods.
You’re doing some world-building, which to me seems like a requirement of pop stardom in the 2020s.
In its bleakly funny mix of world-building by way of world-decaying, it memorably reclaims the term “suspended animation,†and is resonant enough to win.
“Individual backstories and world-building is something that happens in the rehearsal process with the actors,†Busenlener says.
There are a few quite distracting details in the world-building that never add up.
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