cosmogony
/kɒzˈmɒɡəni
/noun (plural cosmogonies) [mass noun]
1The branch of science that deals with the origin of the universe, especially the solar system: today the central questions of cosmology and cosmogony are being explored within the framework of the Big Bang theory...
- Numerous thinkers and works contributed to making astronomy and the related sciences of astrology and cosmogony a near-accurate system.
- The religion of the Pilgrims did not seem to be much preoccupied with questions of cosmology and cosmogony.
- There may be some valid info but it's more about cosmology, cosmogony, and mythology than on magic.
1.1 [count noun] A theory regarding the origin of the universe: in their cosmogony, the world was thought to be a square, flat surface...
- The Hubble Constant is highlighted in the National Geographic article, and conventionally accepted cosmogonies are presented as proof for the old age of the Universe.
- But for life to flourish - and on this point, too, all cosmogonies agree - there must be some place where all these things are reconnected.
- A creation myth is a cosmogony, a story that describes the origins of the universe.
Derivatives
cosmogonic
- This dynastic change, often dated between the seventh and eleventh centuries C.E., reverberates in one cosmogonic myth concerning a power tussle between two deities in the Yoruba pantheon.
- This is partly derived from the African cosmogonic worldview, which presumes a symbiotic relationship between the living and nonliving and between humans and non-humans in the universe.
- It must be noted that the Indian cosmogonic and astronomical systems, while developing independently of western systems, bear remarkable affinities with the latter.
cosmogonical
- In the ‘Verses Addressed to Dr. Lawrence,’ for example, Johnson writes a delightful Ovidian-Lucretian cosmogonical poem, in which he allows himself to speculate on the origins and order of the natural world.
- Typically, Johnson would have no time for the philosophical materialism or cosmogonical speculation of Epicurus, Lucretius, and their followers.
- The hierarchy of the heavens is also an important cosmogonical influence on the family structure.
cosmogonist
- Cosmologists study the present universe, while cosmogonists study the origin of the universe.
- As such, they aid cosmogonists in trying to decipher how it all began.
- Later cosmogonists discarded this theory mostly because it did not account for the greater angular momentum of the outer planets.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Greek kosmogonia, from kosmos 'order or world' + -gonia '-begetting'.
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