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Definition of "cosmogony" [cos•mog•o•ny]

  • The astrophysical study of the origin and evolution of the universe. (noun)
  • A specific theory or model of the origin and evolution of the universe. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cosmogony" in a sentence
  • "Originally, it opened with the three Bone cousins, Fone, Phoney, and Smiley Bone, lost in the desert after being run out of Boneville; the new version begins with a lengthy, dull cutscene in which Thorn gives a narration of Bone's cosmogony from the text of Crown of Horns."
  • "Its cosmogony is a myth read literally: its history is, for the most part, a highly immoral distortion, and its ethics are those of the"
  • "I had had no lessons in cosmogony, and I had no spontaneous revelation of the true position of the earth in the universe."