Synonym a Day

[This is a world usually invented by children, which can involve its own history, geography, and language.]

[Walt Disney] had created the studio; then the studio, with his complicity, created him, making him, he fully understood, as much a commodity as a man—the very sort of diffident, genial, plainspoken, unprepossessing and childishly enthusiastic character who would have produced Walt Disney movies. Essentially, he had become his own paracosm. (Neal Gabler, Walt Disney, Knopf [2006], p. xix.) [Gabler actually used the word “parcosm,” but the correct word is “paracosm.”]