cosmic

What it means

1. Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
2. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.

   cosmic speed

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   The human understanding, for example—the faculty which Mr. Spencer has turned so skillfully round upon its own antecedents—is itself a result of the play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time.

   1874 October, John Tyndall, “Inaugural Address before the British Association”, in Popular Science, page 683

3. Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.

   “It's called transdimentional awareness,” Jay contributed to the conversation, “and it's like totally cosmic man.”

   1999, John W. Milor, Apparition, page 272

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   Humpty Dumpty is the cosmic egg, the wall, the edge between transcendence and existence. As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9

In a sentence

cosmic speed

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱem-?
2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱens-
3. Proto-Hellenic*kónsmos
4. Ancient Greekκόσμ(ος) (kósm(os))
5. Ancient Greekκοσμικός (kosmikós)
6. Englishcosmic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοσμικός (kosmikós).