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n. - A large, complicated system such as the whole universe or a society, considered as a single unit. Everything that exists anywhere.

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  • The former is involved in the microcosm of the local community; the latter in the macrocosm of the world as a whole.
  • Noun : the macrocosm of war
  • What happens in the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm.
  • The macrocosm is the universe as a whole, whose parts are thought of as parts of a human body and mind.
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