Associations to the word «Cosmogony»

Wiktionary

COSMOGONY, noun. The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.
COSMOGONY, noun. Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.
COSMOGONY, noun. The creation of the universe.

Dictionary definition

COSMOGONY, noun. The branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky