private world
noun
The realm of personal thoughts, perceptions, interests, etc., within which one moves or lives; a person's private consciousness (frequently implying a degree of fantasy or isolation from the real world).
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), novelist and poet.
- desolately
- desolateness
- desolation
- desolator
- desolder
- desorb
- desorbent
- desorber
- desorption
- De Soto
- de Soto, Hernando
- despair
- despairing
- despairingly
- despatch
- despatcher
- despedida
- desperado
- desperadoism
- desperate
- desperate diseases must have desperate remedies
- desperately
- desperateness
- desperation
- despicable