imaginary place vs limbo

limbo vs imaginary place

imaginary place and limbo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
imaginary place	Yes	No	No	No
limbo	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, limbo is a hyponym of imaginary place; that is, limbo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than imaginary place:

imaginary place: a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
limbo: (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

Other hyponyms of imaginary place include afterworld, Annwfn, Annwn, Asgard, Atlantis, Brobdingnag, cloud-cuckoo-land, Cockaigne, El Dorado, eldorado, faerie, faery, fairyland, Heaven, Elysium, Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld, Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition, pit, Houyhnhnms, Laputa, Lilliput, Midgard, dreamland, dreamworld, never-never land, purgatory, Ruritania, spirit world, Sion, Utopia, Zion, wonderland.

imaginary place (noun)	limbo (noun)
a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings	(theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
	an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
	the state of being disregarded or forgotten

Difference between imaginary place and limbo

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