Weltanschauung
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Weltanschauung
First recorded in 1865–70; Welt “world” + Anschauung “view, conception, perception”; cf. Anschauung ( def. ); see also world ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Weltanschauung refers to an apprehension, usually one stemming from a specific standpoint.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
Today, some of the best photos in Us Weekly come from Instagram, one of the many descendants of the “Just Like Us” Weltanschauung.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2016
This season’s Oscar favorites “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” seem to fall into the élite brospeak Weltanschauung, tracing impossible physical trials for revenge and a supposed moral order.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2016
About the waves, Mr. Finnegan tells us, “I realized I was seeing long German words in Gothic script, Arbeiterpartei and Oberkommando and Weltanschauung and Götterdämmerung, marching incongruously across the warm gray walls.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015
Some even go so far as to read here an incipient Weltanschauung, a perspective and horizon of the world.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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