cosmogonal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to cosmogony or to a theory about the origin and development of the universe

   The epic opens with a cosmogonal account of order emerging from chaos.

Formed from cosmogony + -al as a less common variant of cosmogonic. Cosmogony comes through New Latin cosmogonia from Greek kosmogonia, 'creation of the world,' combining kosmos, 'world, ordered universe,' with -gonia, 'begetting or origin.'

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