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other world, ˈother-world, n. and a.
Also otherworld.
[See other a. 2.]
1. A world other than this:
a. The world to come, the world beyond the grave.
b. The spirit-land of many non-Christian peoples.
c. The world of idealism, poetry, or romance; also more gen., a range of experiences conceived in imagination or fantasy as lying outside the world as normally known.
c1200,1611[see world n. 1 d]. 1612W. Strachey Trav. Virginia (1849) i. iv. 60 The liuetenant..with his dagger, sent him to accompanye his master in the other world. 1679[see guarantee n. 1]. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. xlii. 141 Baldus..entered upon the law so late in life, that every body imagined he intended to be an advocate in the other world. 1804M. Wilmot Let. 29 June in Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 107 What think you..the place is like?..to let you at once into the secrets of Other Worlds, know that Kattova is very like a wooden village. 1880G. M. Hopkins Let. 22 Dec. in Hopkins & Dixon Corr. (1935) 37 The other-world of imagination. 1887G. B. Shaw Short Stories, Scraps & Shavings in Works (1932) VI. 101 With gho—with people from—with ladies and gentlemen from the other world. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere vii. 89 The most determined sacrificing of ‘this warm kind world’..to a cold other-world with its torturing inadmissible claims. 1895A. Nutt Voy. Bran 213 Manannan, lord of the Happy Otherworld. 1898F. B. Jevons in Class. Rev. Feb. 48/1 He sought to show that a belief in the Happy Otherworld was found amongst the Celts and the Greeks. 1920D. H. Lawrence Women in Love iv. 46 The whole otherworld, wet and remote, he had to himself. 1953A. Huxley Let. 21 June (1969) 678 His [sc. the schizophrenic's] commonest experiences are of an Other World, not heavenly but infernal and purgatorial. 1960S. Plath Colossus 39 These..sheets.. Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, A world we lose by merely waking up. 1968T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test v. 60 The whole other world that LSD opened your mind to. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Apr. 445/3 Mr McCarthy sets his saga of Servier County in the strange otherworld of a Tennessee winter.
2. attrib. Pertaining or relating to the other world; unearthly; heavenly.
1884Tennyson Becket Prol., That sweet other-world smile. 1884J. Parker Larger Ministry 51 The Christian minister is not a chatterer of other-world phrases. 1892J. S. Stuart-Glennie in Proc. Internat. Folk-Lore Congr. 1891 225 Myths which..I would name..the Sacerdotal. By these I mean especially all the Otherworld Myths. 1917[see immram]. 1957G. Ashe King Arthur's Avalon i. 28 A Lake Villagers' burial ground on Ynyswitrin, with a resulting Ghosts' High Noon presided over by other-world deities.
Hence ˈotherˌworldish a., ˈotherˌworldism (nonce-wds.).
1894Q. Rev. Jan. 245 An other-worldish and rather somnolent party. 1894Constance Naden's Poet. Wks. Introd. 14 Religious exercises of Prayer, Praise, and Spiritualism (other-worldism) generally. |