counterworld

noun

coun·​ter·​world ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌwər(-ə)ld 

variants or counter-world

plural counterworlds or counter-worlds

: an alternate and usually opposite world

… the perception that always took hold of me underwater, that I was in a kind of counterworld where every feature and principle of surface life had its alien obverse.

—Stephen Harrigan

Examples of counterworld in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the counterworld of Gutfeld!, there is no eclipse of the republic, no fascist sludge on the rise, no QAnon nibbling at the roots of reason. —James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined above