microcosmic
Adjective
Meaning
Alt. of Microcosmical
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The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.
We shall work not on the macrocosmic scale of the literary forms, but on the microcosmic scale of the lexical forms.
the microcosmic world of business
The mystical microcosmic, of which Elizabeth David and M. F. K. Fisher are the masters, is essentially poetic, and turns every remembered recipe into a meditation on hunger and the transience of its fulfillment."
Such debate might be labeled 'microcosmic ontology'.