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Word: heliocentrism (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Noun:

  • An obsession with the Sun and its movements and patterns.
  • astronomy The theory of the heliocentric model, that the planets including Earth orbit the Sun, in contrast to geocentrism.
  • cultural anthropology A now-defunct theory that all primitive cultures worshipped the Sun and its movements and patterns.

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