Macrocosm

Definition of macrocosm:

part of speech: noun

The whole universe:- opposed to MICROCOSM.

Usage examples for macrocosm:

• Imagine a better label for that tragic record of heroic and yet bootless effort, that matchless picture, in microcosm, of the relentlessly cruel revolutions in the macrocosm "A Book of Prefaces", H. L. Mencken.

• Human evolution is in its essence the struggle of man as a moral being against nature as non- moral or anti- moral; and the curve traced by human evolution is the resultant of the opposition of the two forces- the microcosm, man, and the macrocosm nature. "Evolution", Frank B. Jevons.