Meanings
alternative meat space · alternative meat-space
- InternetderogatoryidiomaticsometimesuncountableThe physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.
2019 April 7, Rita Liao, “The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films”, in TechCrunch1 more example
In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.
1998, Josephine Berry, “What is to be screened – Net utopians and their discontents”, in Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, number 0, pages 66–73Synonyms: fleshspace, IRL, offline, real life · Antonyms: cyberspace
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
Origin
From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish espacio carnal/cárnico/cárneo
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meatspace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meatspace
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