geocentrism
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Noun
editgeocentrism (uncountable)
- A belief that the Earth is the center of the universe.
- (informal) The misbelief that the sun revolves around the Earth.
- 2009 June 1, Andrew Pessin, The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine[1], Oxford: Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, section III, page 109:
- The most famous major challenge was the modern rejection of geocentrism and its acceptance of heliocentrism: that is, the rejection of the view that the sun, planets, and stars all revolve around the earth in favor of the view that the earth and planets revolve around the sun. You can understand why the ancients might have been drawn to geocentrism: it does rather look as if the heavens revolve around the earth, after all, as the sun moves from east to west during the day and then pops up again the next morning in the east.
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editbelief that Earth is the center of the universe
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editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French géocentrisme (“geocentrism”).[1] By surface analysis, geo- + -centrism.
Noun
editgeocentrism n (uncountable)
Declension
edit declension of geocentrism (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) geocentrism | geocentrismul |
genitive/dative | (unui) geocentrism | geocentrismului |
vocative | geocentrismule |
References
edit- ^ geocentrism in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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