[mod. f. Gr. ἀ priv. + κόσμ-ος world + -ISM.] A denial of the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God.
1847. Lewes, Hist. Philos., II. 176 (1867). Logically there is but a trivial distinction between his Acosmism, which makes God the one universal being, and Atheism, which makes the cosmos the one universal existence.
1866. J. Martineau, Ess., I. 223. The akosmism of Spinoza and the atheism of Comte.
