WORLD VIEW

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A comprehensive view of the world and human life

Synonyms:

Weltanschauung; world view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("world view" is a kind of...):

perspective; position; view (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "world view"):

clockwork universe (the view that the universe resembles a clock built by God and ticking along according to Newtonian mechanics)

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