The former is involved in the microcosm of the local community; the latter in the macrocosm of the world as a whole. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Noun : the macrocosm of war. From Dictionary.com.
What happens in the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm. From Wordnik.com. [Lillith and the Devil « Write Anything] Reference
The macrocosm is the universe as a whole, whose parts are thought of as parts of a human body and mind. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
Wal-Mart's culture is a "macrocosm" of the brutal hill-country society now exported to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Working for Wal-Mart: An Exchange] Reference
Man called a "macrocosm" because possessing in miniature the qualities of the Universe, 667-l. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
The macrocosm was a reflection of its microcosms. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
For both the microcosm and the macrocosm structure is memory. From Wordnik.com. [Of Microbes and Men] Reference
Burton accepted the analogy be - tween microcosm and macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC FALL] Reference
That should have been a Gourmet search, a microcosm for a tragic macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Gourmet Starved to Death] Reference
The macrocosm, the community, would reflect the nurse's quality of presence. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
OK, so let's step back from the macrocosm for a moment and make this more personal. From Wordnik.com. [RECESSION, DEPRESSION, COLLAPSE: WHAT'S FEAR GOT TO DO WITH IT?] Reference
We find this parallel between the macrocosm and microcosm in many systems of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Background for Attending a Kalachakra Initiation for World Peace] Reference
Moreover, in the demiurgic tradition man is a microcosm of the macrocosm and is a maker. From Wordnik.com. [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference
Diala often a macrocosm -- called a microcosm of Iraq because of its mixed ethnic makeup. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2007] Reference
Braden explained that a fractal is repetition in different scales: microcosm and macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [2012: Armageddon or Quantum Leap? Gregg Braden's Answer-Fractal Time] Reference
The macrocosm has no imperfection for the simple reason that it is the model of perfection. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
The Master TeacherModern popes matter in spiritual microcosm as well as historical macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [How Benedict XVI Will Make History] Reference
The element of incompleteness is the perfection of the macrocosm and the imperfection of man. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
It's like a-- the number of leads you can have from the chip to the macrocosm are very limited. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology] Reference
Thus at both life's microcosm level and at its macrocosm level, learning is encoded structurally. From Wordnik.com. [Of Microbes and Men] Reference
Health and disease are now states of the human microcosm, which has its parallel in the macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference
In my mind, the microcosm (not the macrocosm around me) I am still the shy-faced boy in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
Suddenly it was if the microcosm became the macrocosm and there was no separation, just one breath. From Wordnik.com. [Ed and Deb Shapiro: Walking On The Moon And Moments That Change Your Life Forever] Reference
Tertiary institutions had much resident expertise and represented a macrocosm of a broader society. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
They felt assured that their knowledge of the macrocosm might be properly applied to the microcosm. From Wordnik.com. [Alchemy] Reference
They felt assured that their knowledge of the macrocosm might be properly applied to the micro - cosm. From Wordnik.com. [ALCHEMY] Reference
That this battle could be a macrocosm, a blueprint for a larger battle to further destabilize the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2007] Reference
There is a complete similarity among these three parts of the microcosm and the three realms of the macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
Will using cloth shopping bags, changing my light bulbs, or shopping locally make a difference in the macrocosm?. From Wordnik.com. [RECESSION, DEPRESSION, COLLAPSE: WHAT'S FEAR GOT TO DO WITH IT?] Reference
In The Divine Pymander, too, earth corresponds to cosmos, the microcosm of man to the macrocosm of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [HERMETICISM] Reference
The projection of human rhythms into the cosmos is only one form of identifying the microcosm and the macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
The newest guide, David Suzuki, works at a far remove from the macrocosm: in the microuniverse of the human gene. From Wordnik.com. [Trying On Some Brand Now Genes] Reference
The whole was a brilliant analysis of England in macrocosm and microcosm welded into the life-story of Remington. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
And PLEASE don't draw high schoolish conclusions about how their political life is a macrocosm of their personal life. From Wordnik.com. [Why are sexists obsessing about Bill Clinton's zipper and ignoring Hillary's NOTHING contribution to America?] Reference
He claimed that, in general, there is no close and reliable set of corre - spondences between microcosm and macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC FALL] Reference
But two of the Hippocratic treatises put forward much more elaborate analogies between the microcosm and the macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
We live in a fantastic universe, and subatomic particles and quantum mechanics are even more fantastic than the macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [Acceptance Speech Upon Receiving The Margaret Edwards Award] Reference
And by understanding that it's a completely different domain from the macrocosm of our usual lives you can understand it better. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology] Reference
Allegory expresses the interplay of little and great worlds, which are ornamentally reflecting surfaces of microcosm and macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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