cosmography
noun
cos·mog·ra·phy käz-ˈmä-grə-fē 
plural cosmographies
1
: a general description of the world or of the universe
2
: the science that deals with the constitution of the whole order of nature
cosmographer
käz-ˈmä-grə-fər
noun cosmographic
ˌkäz-mə-ˈgra-fik
adjective or cosmographical
ˌkäz-mə-ˈgra-fi-kəl
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Lovecraft, quite possibly insane, eschewed realism entirely for an astonishingly demented but powerful cosmography of ancient aliens preying upon the white man much as the white man had dominated others into the twentieth century. 
Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2020
Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2020 Word History
Etymology
Middle English cosmographie, from Late Latin cosmographia, from Greek kosmographia, from kosmos + -graphia -graphy
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- schoolable
- schoolbag
- schoolbags
- schoolbook
- schoolbooks
- schoolboy
- schoolboyish
- schoolboyishness
- sentencers
- sentences
- sentencing
- sentencing guideline
- sentencings
- sententia
- sententiae
- sentential
- sentential calculus
- sentential connective
- sentential function
- sentential variable
- sententially
- sententiary
- sententious
- sententiously
- sententiousness