Outworld

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Definitions

1. The external world that lies beyond a particular community, place, or circle of people
2. The region or realm existing outside a specific group, home, or sphere of familiar life
3. Everything situated beyond the borders of a given domain, especially the wider world away from one's own circle

Etymology: "Outworld" is a plain compound: "out" joined to "world," with the sense of the place beyond some boundary, the world outside a particular group, home, or enclosure. "Out" comes from Old English "ut," meaning "outside" or "away from within," and "world" comes from Old English "weorold," meaning human existence or the age of mankind, which over time came to denote the earthly sphere itself. Put together, the word describes whatever lies beyond a bounded community, whether that is a household, a religious order, a closed society, or a secluded place. Its meaning rests entirely on the spatial sense of "out," so it reads as a contrast with an inner, enclosed space rather than as a term with its own separate history.