Mid Fantasy

I would like to coin some new words. Hyper is a prefix meaning over, beyond, above. Hypo is a prefix meaning below, under, or slight. They describe more / less than normal or average.

Hyperfantasy means a style of fantasy where the fantastic is present is a high amount, or a high abundance. It is not the same as high fantasy. High fantasy describes a full fantastic, fiction world or setting. Hyperfantastic describes a style of story or setting where there would appear to be more fantastic stuff than real stuff. The frequency of the fantastic is so common that the fantastic is ordinary and mundane. It might not even be exotic anymore. Consider the show Aventure Time.

Hypofantasy is the opposite. It describes a style of fantasy where the fantastic is very rare to the point that it might not be recognized as a fantasy at a glance. There might be one fantastic object or character in the whole story that appears mostly grounded, like the first three Indiana Jones films. It might seem redundant when you consider low fantasy can describe the same thing, but the distinction is that low fantasy describes the setting, and hypofantasy describes the quantity of famtastic elements. You could have a high fantasy setting where the fantastic seems to have been lost.

What's the point? Mostly, I want these concepts in the vernacular because when I say fantasy, no one knows what I kind if fantasy mean. They assume hyperfantasy more than not.

You know what, sod it. I think mid fantasy will suit me. I'm copy/pasting the definition from AI below:

Mid-fantasy, or middle fantasy, is an informal genre term describing settings that fall between high fantasy and low fantasy, often featuring a secondary world with fantastical elements that are more grounded and less pervasive than in high fantasy, and magic that is uncommon but present, along with common elements like political intrigue, realistic or semi-realistic characters, and less epic stakes.

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