cosmolatry

English

Etymology

cosmo- +‎ -latry

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒzˈmɒlətɹi/

Noun

cosmolatry (uncountable)

1. Worship paid to the world.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     […] Polytheism , cosmolatry (or world-idolatry ), and creature-worship […]

2. Worship of the cosmos.

References

“cosmolatry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.