low fantasy

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Adjective

low fantasy (comparative more low fantasy, superlative most low fantasy)

  1. (psychology) Having a poor fantasy life, such as not having imaginary companions nor playing pretend games.
    • 2014, Candida Clifford Peterson, “Preschoolers”, in Looking Forward Through the Lifespan‎[1], →ISBN, page 237:
      Jerome Singer (1973) divided a group of children aged six to nine years into high-fantasy and low-fantasy groups on the basis of their frequency of playing pretend games as contrasted with other kinds of play

Noun

low fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural low fantasies)

  1. (uncountable) A subgenre of fantasy fiction set in the primary or real world as opposed to a secondary or fantasy world.
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  2. (uncountable) A subgenre of fantasy fiction that focuses on more grounded and realistic fantasy with more focus on the daily lives and practical goals of the characters.
  3. (countable) A work in this subgenre.

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