cosmology
pronunciation
How to pronounce cosmology in British English:
UK [kɒzˈmɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce cosmology in American English:
US [kɑːzˈmɑːlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe
- the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe
Word Origin
- cosmology (n.)
- 1650s, from Modern Latin cosmologia, from Greek kosmos (see cosmos) + -logia "discourse" (see -logy). Related: Cosmological; cosmologist. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. [Robert Frost, from "Desert Places," 1936]
Example
- 1. According to standard cosmology , we should be swimming in dark matter .
- 2. But the ensuing 500 million years are the so-called dark ages of cosmology .
- 3. On the deepest questions , he believed , cosmology must give way to metaphysics .
- 4. From then on , cosmology would weave into mythology as the basis for her vision .
- 5. And it was done as a collaborative project with the rubin museum of himalayan art for an exhibit on comparative cosmology .