own world
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7.0
- noun
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mundo propio
- She became deaf to advice, trapped in her own world.
- create their own world
Like I get so caught in my own world, right, and my own problems.
- Like I get so caught in my own world, right, and my own problems.
- Like, he's in his own world and he's very busy.
- And, and we feel that our own thoughts and our own world is more interesting than theirs.
- And I'm up there in my own world of psychosis thinking I'm doing the right thing.
- They have their own world, their own consciousness, their own emotions, right?
- Like you're, you're truly living in your own world.
- We could go off for like hours in our own world.
- So it's I don't have place for me as a hero in my own world.
- It's about how you manage your life and the possibilities of your own world.
- like grudges, right? Like just, um, ego. Yeah, yeah. And, and like, he's in his own world.
- So you can see signs of escapism or see signs where they're retracted, you know, because they're kind of constantly in their own world.
- They are living in their own world, their own, you know, their life yesterday, the world they've always lived in.
- People are too busy in their own world to care or even think about what you said and what you did and how you look.
- You cannot live in your own world, you know, lick in your own ice cream.
- And they both in their own world are right, except both of them are actually wrong.
Examples
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Look, I know that I've been a little caught up in my own world lately.
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You do tend to live in your own world.
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Like I get so caught in my own world, right, and my own problems.
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And they both in their own world are right, except both of them are actually wrong.
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People are too busy in their own world to care or even think about what you said and what you did and how you look.
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You know, you are just lost in your own world in here.
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We created our own world together.
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Dad seemed to be in his own world, too.
Fiction book (2000) -
Most people live in their own world, and for the most part, that's OK.
Blog text (26) -
They were so in love that they created their own world, oblivious to everything around them.
Synonyms
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4.8
A person's own life, feelings, and view of things
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3.7
A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
Antonyms
How Absorbed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derivable: 'own' (possessive/exclusive) combined with 'world' (one's realm of experience) yields the idea of a private sphere or being absorbed in one's own experience. This is a common, cross-linguistic conceptualization and follows normal possession + noun composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Own world paints a picture of someone living inside a small private world that belongs to them, like being inside a little bubble. So, when someone is in their own world, they are 'so focused' or 'not aware of what is happening around them'.