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Another word for macrocosm

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Noun

  1. The totality of all existing things

      1. The earth, especially together with the life it supports:
      2. The universe:
      3. Humankind considered as social beings; human society:
      1. All space-time, matter, and energy, including the solar system, all stars and galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole.
      2. A hypothetical whole of space-time, matter, and energy that is purported to exist simultaneously with but to be different from this universe:
      3. A model or conception of the earth and everything else that exists:
      1. The material world and its phenomena:
      2. The forces and processes that produce and control these phenomena:
      3. The world of living things and the outdoors:
      1. The act of creating.
      2. The fact or state of having been created.
      3. The act of investing with a new office or title.
      1. The universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious whole.
      2. An ordered, harmonious whole.
      3. Harmony and order as distinct from chaos.
    See also:

    part

    matter

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Another word for macrocosm

Noun
  1. See also:

    whole

    universe

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Note the parallel between the macrocosm and the microcosm.

  • Of the three divisions logic is the least important; ethics is the outcome of the whole, and historically the all-important vital element; but the foundations of the whole system are best discerned in the science of nature, which deals pre-eminently with the macrocosm and the microcosm, the universe and man, including natural theology and an anthropology or psychology, the latter forming the direct introduction to ethics.

  • The conception of man, the microcosm, containing in himself all the parts of the universe or macrocosm, is also Babylonian, as again probably is the famous identification of the metals with the planets.

  • Our study on the local environment, is a microcosm of the larger world macrocosm.

  • What lived in time belonged to eternity; the microcosm was the epitome of the macrocosm; the reason which reigned in man interpreted the law that was revealed in conscience and the power which governed human destiny, while the freedom which man realized was the direct negation both of necessity and of the operation of any fortuitous cause in the cosmos.

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