cosmic

cosmic
cosmicality /koz'mi kal"i tee/, n.cosmically, adv.
/koz"mik/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to the cosmos: cosmic laws.
2. characteristic of the cosmos or its phenomena: cosmic events.
3. immeasurably extended in time and space; vast.
4. forming a part of the material universe, esp. outside of the earth.
Also, cosmical.
[1640-50; < Gk kosmikós worldly, universal, equiv. to kósm(os) world, arrangement + -ikos -IC]
Syn. 3. immense, enormous, stupendous.

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