cosmogony
noun
cos·mog·o·ny käz-ˈmä-gə-nē 
plural cosmogonies
1
: a theory of the origin of the universe
2
: the creation or origin of the world or universe
cosmogonic
ˌkäz-mə-ˈgä-nik
adjective or cosmogonical
ˌkäz-mə-ˈgä-ni-kəl
cosmogonist
käz-ˈmä-gə-nist
noun 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Giving up the memory practice, Jacob moved on to enumeration: listing, between turns at Risk, each reliable aspect of their new lives, no matter how trivial, hoping to piece together some rough cosmogony of the place. 
Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 See More
Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Joe Biden is a devout Catholic, yet the shape of his speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination at its virtual convention was based on the cosmogony of one of Christianity’s great early rivals, Manichaeanism. Fintan O’toole, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 See More Word History
Etymology
New Latin cosmogonia, from Greek kosmogonia, from kosmos + gonos offspring; akin to Greek genos race — more at kin
First Known Use
1696, in the meaning defined at sense 1