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Returning now to Plato's conception of community understood through the terms macrocosm and microcosm, what can the nursing world situation reveal to us of community? What happens in the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm. noun A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.See microcosm.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun The great world that part of the universe which is exterior to man - contrasted with microcosm, or man.noun The entire mass of anything of which man forms a part the whole of any division of nature or of knowledge.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.The conception dates back to Democritus (born 460 b. noun The great world the universe, or the visible system of worlds: opposed to microcosm, or the little world constituted by man.noun A system reflecting on a large scale one of its component systems or parts.
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From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.