Sentence examples for macrocosm from inspiring English sources
"macrocosm" is a correct and usable word in written English
It refers to the entire universe or a large-scale system considered as a whole, in contrast to a smaller or more localized system (microcosm). Example: "The novel explored the interconnectedness of the characters' lives, showing how their individual actions and choices affected the macrocosm of society."
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A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.
But, as with Jovovich, there was microcosm within macrocosm – this time, a little Perspex box with water and a live duck symbolising something or other.
The glassy orb, an image of the world or the cosmos, makes you think of Leonardo's scientific research and his philosophy of the microcosm of the human being within the macrocosm of the universe.
Heaven reflected Earth, and macrocosm echoed microcosm.
A speculative citizen of the world, he wrote in an ornate style and, as one critic said, delighted in mirroring the macrocosm in a microcosm.
Another area of nature symbolism is that of the microcosm and macrocosm of heaven and Earth.
Science inspired some poets, as evidenced by Anne Simpson's Is, wherein the cell was envisioned as a microcosm within a macrocosm that was itself a microcosm, elements of each intricately intertwined.
First, both are grounded in theories of qi, yin-yang and wuxing and microcosm-macrocosm analogies based on them.
His work reflected these interests in yin-yang and wuxing theory and macrocosm-microcosm correspondences between the body and cosmos.
He did not believe in the existence of the (crystalline) spheres nor in the macrocosm-microcosm analogy.
MORRIS TOWNSHIP Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth "The Abstract Universe: Microcosm/Macrocosm," group show.
A macrocosm/microcosm analogy sees similarities between a small system and a large system.
