cosmological

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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adjective pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe
adjective pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality

From cosmology + -ical.

These questions relate solely to the cosmological ideas. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
The cosmological notion of the mind as the primum mobile, and the admission of impulse into the immortal nature, also afford grounds for assigning a later date. — Phaedrus, Plato
The cosmological proof is, as we have already seen, that every cause in the world being at the same time an effect, it cannot be the sufficient reason of anything. — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey

cosmologic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmogenic

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