microcosm
noun
a little world; a world in miniature (opposed to macrocosm).
microcosmic
-
a word derived from
microcosm.
Example Sentences
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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
Begun during the isolation of the pandemic shutdown, the pictures are appropriately interior and microcosmic.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
That first half-hour of testimony was sort of a microcosmic recapitulation of Palin’s 2008 debut on the national stage.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2022
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
It is an old rural town that has even a few bams, an alienated and microcosmic village within a large city.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
