Usage of "world view"

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Fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society's knowledge and point of view.

Related terms

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A comprehensive view of the world and human life.

Synonyms

Examples for "Weltanschauung"

Examples for "Weltanschauung"

He abandons these seminars to study the "Weltanschauung" of the American female. 
 The new yorker 

Some even go so far as to read here an incipient Weltanschauung, a perspective and horizon of the world. 
 The Civilization of Illiteracy 

I take a mouthful of lukewarm bunker-oil-flavored cow piss and try not to gag as my Weltanschauung strips its gears. 
 The Rhesus Chart 

A speaker of Yiddish could not get rid of their Yiddish Weltanschauung or mindset, even though they hated Yiddish and wanted to speak Hebrew. 
 BBC 

Weltanschauung: one's philosophy or conception of the universe and of life (cf. 
 The Civilization of Illiteracy 

Usage of world view in English

This is incompatible with the political universalisation of a secularist world view. 
 The Irish Times 

It reflects the world view of a septuagenarian stuck in the past. 
 Reuters 

If you're from Monaghan, your world view is usually limited by drumlins. 
 The Irish Times 

At the core of the movie's world view are its generic underpinnings. 
 Reuters 

This paranoid world view misses the messiness with which life actually unfolds. 
 The new yorker 

This was the first time that old, stale world view had collapsed. 
 The Guardian 

In this world view of bold colors, the black square glows orange. 
 Wired 

Their shared position is striking, especially given their other differences in world view. 
 The Irish Times 

The latter consumers were also less likely to want their world view challenged. 
 News.com.au 

Today their world view appears to be national policy in the Reagan Administraton. 
 The new yorker 

I create my own world view, my own morality, my own reality . 
 The Irish Times 

He held fast to great ideals and to an intellectually rigorous world view. 
 The Irish Times 

The problem with Hayne's world view on star culture is two-fold. 
 The Guardian 

So it's more evidence of what researchers call a world view defence approach. 
 Radio NZ 

It is really about the de-marginalisation within my own world view. 
 Jamaica Observer 

PRUITT: My kids are wonderfully talented individuals and their world view is wonderful. 
 Reuters 

Translations for world view

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Meanings of world view in English