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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
world view
noun
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▪ Ideas expressed at many different periods, or in many different contexts, have been assembled into a definitive world view.
▪ In effect their fiscal mandate meant their version of reality failed to synchronize with the police world view.
▪ It is in this way a world view, of which psychoanalysis forms an important part.
▪ The Republican world view may not have changed in 20 years, but the world certainly has.
▪ There can be no doubting their experience, their confidence, and the classic simplicity of their world view.
▪ This world view in which past and present are simultaneous, constitutes a new understanding of society.
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world view

n. (alternative spelling of worldview English)

WordNet
world view

n. a comprehensive view of the world and human life [syn: Weltanschauung]

Wikipedia
World view

A comprehensive world view or worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society's knowledge and point of view. A world view can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics. The term is a calque of the German word Weltanschauung , composed of Welt ('world') and Anschauung ('view' or 'outlook') The German word is also used in English.

It is a concept fundamental to German philosophy and epistemology and refers to a wide world perception. Additionally, it refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs forming a global description through which an individual, group or culture watches and interprets the world and interacts with it.

Usage examples of "world view".

The Newtonian world view was as instinctively alien to Wan-To as quantum mechanics was to a human, because he himself was a quantum-mechanical phenomenon.

We have a tendency today to think we occupy some exalted vantage point, and to pity the poor Newtonians for having so limited a world view.

I knew about the Magian World View, and recognized it in my teacher.

It dutifully inserted the new behaviors into its world view, then reexamined the man-and-cart scenario.

Some of which she cancelled or modified, and some she reaffirmed within her newly evolving world view.