cosmic meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

cosmic

adj

UK /ˈkɒz.mɪk/ · US /ˈkɑz.mɪk/

Etymology Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοσμικός (kosmikós).

Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.

Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.

cosmic speed
The human understanding, for example—the faculty which Mr. Spencer has turned so skillfully round upon its own antecedents—is itself a result of the play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time.1874 October, John Tyndall, “Inaugural Address before the British Association”, in Popular Science, page 683:

Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.

Humpty Dumpty is the cosmic egg, the wall, the edge between transcendence and existence. As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:
“It's called transdimentional awareness,” Jay contributed to the conversation, “and it's like totally cosmic man.”1999, John W. Milor, Apparition, page 272:

Astronomy, Natural sciences Dated Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.

Synonyms: cosmic, universal
Derived terms: 53 terms
acosmic, anthropocosmic, astrocosmic, biocosmic, cosmically, cosmic background, cosmic background radiation, cosmic bowling, cosmic calendar, cosmic censorship, cosmic censorship hypothesis, cosmic disco, cosmic dust, cosmic egg, cosmic event horizon, cosmic gravitational wave background, cosmic gravitational-wave background, cosmic infrared background, cosmic irony, cosmicism, cosmicist, cosmicity, cosmicize, cosmic joker, cosmic latte, cosmic light horizon, cosmic microwave background, cosmic neutrino background, cosmic radiation, cosmic ray, cosmic singularity, cosmic string, cosmic teapot, cosmic time, cosmic wall, cosmic web, cosmic year, first cosmic velocity, geocosmic, hypercosmic, intercosmic, neocosmic, noncosmic, pancosmic, postcosmic, precosmic, psychocosmic, second cosmic velocity, sociocosmic, supercosmic, third cosmic velocity, transcosmic, ultracosmic
Related terms: astronautical, astronomical, cosmos, astronomy
Hypernyms: multiversal
Hyponyms: 27 terms
celestial, spatial, extragalactic, galactic, intergalactic, nebular, nebulous, astral, solar, starly, stellar, sunly, planetary, asteroidal, cometary, cometesimal, meteoric, atmospheric, atmospherical, environmental, geodetic, geodynamic, geologic, geographic, geothermal, tectonic, topographic
Meronyms: 44 terms
Mercurial, Mercurian, Cytherean, Venerian, Venusian, Earthian, earthly, earthside, lunar, lunary, moonly, selenian, Terran, terrene, terrestrial, Martian, Callistan, Callistoan, Callistonian, Europan, Ganymedean, Ganymedian, Ionian, jovial, Jovian, Enceladan, Enceladean, Mimantean, Mimantian, Rhean, Saturnal, Saturnian, saturnine, Titanian, Arielian, Mirandan, Mirandian, Oberonian, Umbrielian, Uranian, Neptunian, Tritonian, Charonian, Plutonian