heliocentrism

Etymology
Shortened from, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  The theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  The phenomenon of the Earth revolving around the Sun.
 * 1)  The phenomenon of the Earth revolving around the Sun.
 * 1)  The phenomenon of the Earth revolving around the Sun.
 * 1)  The phenomenon of the Earth revolving around the Sun.

Usage notes
Many dictionaries recognize heliocentricism as the grammatically correct form of this word. However, in current usage heliocentrism appears to be by far more frequently used. According to a Google Books search it seems that heliocentrism began to gain ground in the turn of 1960s and 1970s with the first occurrence taking place in 1930s.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: heliosentrisme
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: heliocentrismu
 * Azerbaijani: heliosentrizm
 * Basque: heliozentrismo
 * Belarusian: геліяцэнтры́зм
 * Bulgarian: хелиоцентри́зъм
 * Catalan: heliocentrisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: heliocentrisme
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: heliocentrismo
 * Estonian: heliotsentrism
 * Finnish: aurinkokeskisyys, heliosentrismi
 * French:
 * Galician: heliocentrismo
 * Georgian: ჰელიოცენტრიზმი
 * German: Heliozentrismus
 * Greek: ηλιοκεντρισμός
 * Hungarian: heliocentrizmus
 * Ido: heliocentrismo
 * Indonesian: heliosentrisme
 * Interlingua: heliocentrismo
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: гелиоцентризм
 * Kyrgyz: гелиоцентризм
 * Latin: heliocentrismus
 * Latvian: heliocentrisms
 * Lithuanian: heliocentrizmas
 * Luxembourgish: Heliozentrismus
 * Macedonian: хелиоцентризам
 * Maltese: eljoċentriżmu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: heliosentrisme
 * Nynorsk: heliosentrisme
 * Occitan: eliocentrisme
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: heliocentrismo
 * Romanian:
 * Cyrillic: хелиочентрисм
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хелиоцентрѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: heliocentrizmus
 * Slovene: heliocentrizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: heliocentrism
 * Ukrainian: геліоцентри́зм
 * Uzbek: geliotsentrizm
 * Yiddish: העליאָצענטריזם

Etymology
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