Cosmos vs Community - What's the difference?
cosmos | community |
The universe.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-24, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An ordered, harmonious whole.
Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
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A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
* Hallam
* Wordsworth
A commune, or residential or religious collective.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
* (John Locke)
* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) common character; likeness.
* H. Spencer
(obsolete) commonness; frequency
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun cosmos
is .As a noun community is
a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law see civilization.cosmos
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia cosmos) (wikispecies)A problem of cosmic proportions, passage=In Dr Wetterich’s picture of the cosmos the redshift others attribute to expansion is, rather, the result of the universe putting on weight. If atoms weighed less in the past, he reasons, the light they emitted then would, in keeping with the laws of quantum mechanics, have been less energetic than the light they emit now.}}
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of cosmopolitanNoun
(head)community
English
Noun
(wikipedia community) (communities)- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.}}
- The original community of all things.
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- Eyes sick and blunted with community .