macrocosm
n.
universe, world as a whole; structure or concept viewed in its entirety
Macrocosm and microcosm
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient
Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the
cosmos. It may have begun with
Democritus in the 5th century B.C. or with
Pythagoras and is a philosophical conception that runs through
Socrates, and
Plato all the way to the
Renaissance. With
Pythagoras, the discovery of the
golden ratio and its philosophical conception called the
Golden mean, the Greeks observed the golden ratio in many parts of the ordered universe both large and small. Philosophically, the Greeks were concerned with a rational explanation of everything and saw the repetition of the golden mean throughout the world and all levels of reality as a step towards this unifying theory. In short, it is the recognition that the same traits appear in entities of many different sizes, from one man to the entire human population.
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macrocosm
Noun
1. everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
(synonym) universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos
(hypernym) natural object
(hyponym) closed universe
(member-meronym) galaxy, extragalactic nebula
(part-meronym) celestial body, heavenly body
Macrocosm
(n.)
The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Macrocosm
Macrocosm [from Greek makros wide, large + kosmos universe] Kosmos considered in contradistinction from any one of its parts or microcosms.