goya
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9.9
A strong feeling of being completely absorbed in a story or made-up world as if it were real
- noun
- Literature
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goya
- The movie was so immersive that the audience felt a goya as if they were living in the characters' reality.
Examples
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As the storyteller wove her tale, the children felt a sense of goya that made them believe they were actually part of the adventure.
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Lost in his thoughts, he experienced a goya that transported him to a vibrant fantasy world filled with magic and wonder.
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She put a broad, bare foot on his frightened stomach and said: "Who you call goya?"
Fiction book (1994) -
"Ushi was sure that the papayas and goyas Seiyu pulled out of the bag had been stolen."
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
immersion
vsgoya
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5.4
Giving full attention to something so you forget other things
is feeling transported into an imagined world rather than general focus
How Immersed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Goya is easy to remember if you think of the Spanish painter Goya, whose strange, dreamlike pictures seem to pull you into another world. So goya means the feeling of being 'deeply transported into an imagined world'.