Heliocentrism

Quick meaning: Heliocentrism is a noun meaning (astronomy, history) The theory that the sun is the center of the universe.

Meaning

(astronomy, history) The theory that the sun is the center of the universe.

More Meanings

1. (informal) The phenomenon of the Earth revolving around the Sun.

Example Sentences

It wasn't until the Renaissance that scientists such as Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei showed proof for heliocentrism, or the idea that the planets moved around the sun.

Heliocentrism is not yet universally known or accepted. In a 1999 poll, 18 of Americans said that the sun revolves around the Earth, while 79 percent said Earth revolves around the sun.

You would think the practitioners of the dismal science of economics would look at their demand curves and the data on incomes and taxes and pronounce a verdict, the way Galileo and Copernicus did when they showed that geocentrism was a fantasy because the Earth revolves around the sun (known as heliocentrism).

1923, Felix Adler, "The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal," American Ethical Union, 68. Geocentrism has been displaced by heliocentrism. Heliocentrism, in turn, the claim of the sun, surrounded by its satellites, to a sovereign place in the heavens, has become ridiculous in the face of the wilderness of suns that people the abysses beyond us.

Word Forms

• heliocentricism

Synonyms for heliocentrism

Depending on context, synonyms include heliocentricity.

Antonyms for heliocentrism

Common opposites include geocentrism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heliocentricism, geocentrism, geoheliocentrism, geocentricism, heliolatitude, heliotomography.

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