cosmolatry

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/kɒzˈmɒlətɹi/

noun

Worship paid to the world.

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Meanings

nouncosmolatry (uncountable)
  1. uncountableWorship paid to the world.

    […]Polytheism , cosmolatry (or world-idolatry ), and creature-worship[…]

    1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC
  2. uncountableWorship of the cosmos.

Origin

From cosmo- + -latry.

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APA

cosmolatry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cosmolatry

MLA

“cosmolatry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cosmolatry. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cosmolatry,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cosmolatry.

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