cosmology -
A metaphysical study into the origin and nature of the universe.
cosmology -
A particular view cultural or religious of the structure and origin of the universe.
Wikipedia
Cosmology, in strict usage, refers to the study of the Universe in its totality as it now is (or at least as it can be observed now), and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent (first used in 1730 in Christian Wolff's Cosmologia Generalis), study of the universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion. (See Cosmogony for the study of origins of the Universe.).
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cosmology The science that studies the origin and the development of the universe.