cosmism

[ koz-miz-uhm ]

noun

1. the philosophy of cosmic evolution.

Other Words From

• cosmist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cosmism¹

First recorded in 1860–65; cosm- + -ism

Example Sentences

The acronym stands for "transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism."

From Salon

A. Our first one focused on the philosophical movement of Russian Cosmism, something quite unknown and that we thought could have a big audience.

From New York Times

It will be built upon a scientific and religious cosmism.

From Project Gutenberg

Besides the term Secularism, there was another term which seemed to promise also distinctiveness of meaning—namely, Cosmism, under which adherents would have taken the designation of Cosmists.

From Project Gutenberg

I employ it, as a title, to-day for political reasons, in order to show those who make it a ground of civil exclusion, that it is a thing of law and limits: that the reputed Atheism of English working men, so far as it prevails, is no longer the old Atheism of mere negation, but the Cosmism of modern science; neither dissolute, anarchical, nor impious—recognises that the universe is, without theorising why it is.

From Project Gutenberg