Definition of "macrocosm" [mac•ro•cosm]

• The entire world; the universe. (noun)
• A system reflecting on a large scale one of its component systems or parts. (noun)

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• "What happens in the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm."
• "Returning now to Plato's conception of community understood through the terms macrocosm and microcosm, what can the nursing world situation reveal to us of community?"
• "The macrocosm is the universe as a whole, whose parts are thought of as parts of a human body and mind."