wonderworldEtymologyFrom wonder + world; compare the coincidentally equivalently formed Old English wundorworuld (“wonderful world”).nounA place full of delights or marvels.“What indeed, is every—the commonest phenomenon but a wonder and a mystery;—every flower a riddle; every blade of grass an open secret; every mite that glistens in the sunbeam a point from which the universe opens outward? This world is no less a mystery and a wonder-world than the world beyond, and were it not for our close familiarity with it, by which our sense is blunted we should at once perce”