megasociety

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ society

Noun

megasociety (plural megasocieties)

1. A very large-scale society.
   • 2005, Mary E. Clark, In Search of Human Nature, page 265:

     All cultures, from the simplest tribes to multicultural megasocieties, have sacred ideas (or, as Marty calls them, "objects") that are often sequestered in a sacred place: a sacred grove, or a mountain top; a shrine in the jungle; a temple; an ancestral burial site, from ancient tumuli to Egyptian pyramids, to the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.