English

geofiction

From geo- + fiction.

A compound of geo- + fiction

Proto-Hellenic *gaya

Ancient Greek γῆ ‘earth’

English geo-

Latin fingō ‘to form, devise, feign’

Latin fictiō ‘a making; a feigning’

Old French ficcion ‘dissimulation, invention’

Middle English ficcioun ‘invention, fabrication’

The story

Ostensibly coined by future members of the Dutch Geofiction Association (founded 1984).

noun The conception and creation of a fictional cartographic design that is the setting of a work of fiction or of one's imagination; worldbuilding.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / geofiction