English

Noun

Multiverse ‎(plural Multiverses)

1. Alternative letter-case form of multiverse

English

Noun

multiverse ‎(plural multiverses)

1. (philosophy) The world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability.
   • 1895 October, James, William, “Is Life Worth Living?”, in International Journal of Ethics, page 10:

     Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse, as one might call it, and not a universe.

   • 1953, Bellow, Saul, chapter 6, in The Adventures of Augie March, Viking Press:

     I've never gone through a place like Racine without thinking which house with the rubber-tire swing for kids and piano-practicing inside was like Stiva Lausch's, who had two daughters brought up with every refinement, including piano lessons, and how such little-speaking Odessa-bred sons had gotten on a track like this through the multiverse.

2. (physics, cosmology) The hypothetical group of all the possible universes in existence.

   Our universe is a very small part of the multiverse.

Synonyms

• meta-universe

Derived terms

• multiversal

Related terms

• universe
• nulliverse

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