An attic is a space or room just under the roof of a house, often used for storage.
It originally referred to a kind of decorative upper story in classical buildings from Attica, the region around Athens in Greece. Over time, in English, it shifted to mean the upper space under a roof in ordinary houses.
Attics in stories are often where secrets, memories, or strange objects are hidden. Psychologists sometimes compare the mind to a house with an attic—full of old, dusty beliefs and memories you rarely visit but that still weigh down the structure.
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