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weltanschauung
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun weltanschauung has 1 sense
- weltanschauung(n = noun.cognition) world view - a comprehensive view of the world and human life; Array is a kind of perspective, position, view
has particulars: clockwork universe
CIDE DICTIONARY
weltanschauung, n. [G.].
Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
weltanschauung, n. a particular philosophy or view of life; a conception of the world.
Etymology
G f. Welt world + Anschauung perception
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