Thesaurus results for AFTERWORLD

afterworld

noun

as in otherworld

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Recent Examples of afterworld Nearly 2000 years ago, the empire of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica embraced the symbolic centrality of snakes in creation myths, both revered and feared for their ability to traverse the boundaries between the natural world and the afterworld. —

Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025 If my father's spirit wants to talk to me from the afterworld, then his spirit will have to be the one that reaches out. —

Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023 In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1. —

Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022 These attitudes slowly shifted around 2000 B.C., when commoners were also granted access to the afterworld as long as their body was mummified, and their valuables were placed into the tomb. —

Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021 See All Example Sentences for afterworld

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The map, as a window into an exotic otherworld and a symbol of Habsburg might, had become an independent reality, even though Tenochtitlan itself had been reduced to rubble — or rather precisely because of it.

— Big Think, Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
As a pure visual experience, the horror film is a genuine triumph, with production design that pulls you fully into the town’s horrific otherworld.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026