cosmology

noun

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cos·mol·o·gy | \ käz-ˈmä-lə-jē

plural cosmologies

Definition of cosmology

1a : a branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of the universe

b : a theory or doctrine describing the natural order of the universe

2 : a branch of astronomy that deals with the origin, structure, and space-time relationships of the universe also : a theory dealing with these matters

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Other Words from cosmology

cosmological \ ˌkäz-mə-ˈlä-ji-kəl

\ adjective

cosmologically \ ˌkäz-mə-ˈlä-ji-k(ə-)lē

\ adverb

cosmologist \ käz-ˈmä-lə-jist

\ noun

Examples of cosmology in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Shriner, who died in 2018, cobbled together a freaky cosmology from a buffet of conspiracy theories that went well beyond your garden-variety end-time Christianity and into the world of reptiles, clones, and aliens. — Vulture Editors, Vulture, "This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: The Unsolved Case of the Doodler," 19 Mar. 2021 Gone was the cosmology of hell realms and hungry ghosts and karma and rebirth. — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, "Lost in Thought," 16 Mar. 2021 Tibetan iconography was an exercise in cosmology as well as a religious art form and an aid to meditation. — John Gray, The New York Review of Books, "Is Philosophy an Art?," 9 Mar. 2021 Thus our cosmology is already, in some sense, partly created from kanaka knowledge. — Popular Science, "In Hawaii, an ancient observatory offers lessons for modern stargazers," 9 Mar. 2021 These are the frontiers of our knowledge, and represent some of the most pressing problems in modern cosmology today. — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, "What Do We Really Know About Dark Matter And Black Holes?," 3 Mar. 2021 The only American institution that remains worthy of your confidence, in the bleak cosmology of Tucker Carlson Tonight, is Tucker Carlson. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, "The Unmaking of American Cynicism," 26 Feb. 2021 Gravitational waves offer a way to measure the universe that is completely independent of every other method in the history of cosmology, said Salvatore Vitale, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — Quanta Magazine, "Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos," 17 Feb. 2021 Perhaps Linde’s ego and bravado were essential for the conception of his fantasmagoric cosmology. — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, "‘It Seems That I Know How the Universe Originated’," 8 Feb. 2021

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