worldview
or world view
a comprehensive conception or philosophy of the universe and of humanity's relation to it: By examining certain foundational elements, we can unpack the concepts that dictate each individual’s worldview.
Origin of worldview
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How to use worldview in a sentence
Primarily because the way most of us in the west and Anglophile world view the history of the Great War is from the winning side.
He had a medieval world view in which there were angels and devils and demons and forces all around him all the time.
Murder, Sex, and the Writing Life: Norman Mailer’s Biography | Ronald K. Fried | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn their world-view they are protecting Israel against those they consider blasphemers.
Most importantly, Gomez offers a non-apocalyptic world view of our nation.
O'Connor's world view, at least as laid out in her memoir, is in fact kind of frightening.
She likes these two best—one because it gives the home view and the other because it gives the world view.
The American Country Girl | Martha Foote CrowOur fathers had a world view and a philosophy which made such preaching easy.
Preaching and Paganism | Albert Parker FitchTransplanted into the Greek world-view, inevitably the Christian teaching was modified—indeed transformed.
Like all concepts the meaning of religious terms is changed with a changing experience and a changing world-view.
Hence the new world-view threatens the foundations of the ecclesiastical edifice.
British Dictionary definitions for world-view
another word for Weltanschauung
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