worldview
See also: world-view and world view
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world + view.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]worldview (plural worldviews)
- A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
- Near-synonym: cosmovision
- 2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in reply. X users, including many in the tech industry, lambasted the posts, though other users agreed with Musk and said they were gleefully watching him sink into their hateful worldview.
- The totality of one's beliefs about reality.
- Near-synonym: cosmology
- A general philosophy or view of life.
- The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 7:
- Human beings feel safe and secure when they can stand confidently in the center of things, either in the center of an age or in the center of a class of people with a common world-view, but when they come to an edge, they feel nervous and unsettled.
- 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories[2], Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
- The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
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[edit]personal view of the world
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totality of one's beliefs about reality
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general philosophy or view of life
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