macrocosmic
Americanadjective
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relating to the macrocosm or universe.
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relating to, being, representing, or reproducing the entire complex structure of something.
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The rooms of the downtown gallery will be darkened, and Hooper Schneider’s “disorienting vistas,” microcosmic scenarios that allude to macrocosmic phenomena of ecological, biological, anthropological and sociological distress, will be illuminated dramatically within.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
And, contrasting with this macrocosmic scale, there is the microcosmic: the stripped-down vulnerability of individual drawings, which are often not much larger than the faces that lean in to absorb them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
He rarely complained, always insisting that he took “the macrocosmic view of life”—and only a supremely buoyant man expects to live forever, even in a crippled state.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
Joyce is depicting the macrocosmic world as composed of innumerable microcosms, individual minds.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2018
It was the middle of day one of Operation Save Fig, and my stress levels had gone from jittery subatomic particles to earth-quaking macrocosmic proportions.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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