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English
Etymology
A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world + view.
Pronunciation
Noun
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, →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, 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.
Synonyms
Translations
personal view of the world
- Afrikaans: wêreldbeskouing
- Armenian: աշխարհայացք (hy) (ašxarhayacʻkʻ)
- Azerbaijani: zehniyyət, dünyagörüşü
- Belarusian: светапо́гляд m (svjetapóhljad)
- Bengali: দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি n (driśṭibhoṅgi)
- Bulgarian: мирогле́д (bg) m (mirogléd)
- Catalan: cosmovisió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 世界觀/世界观 (sai3 gaai3 gun1)
- Hokkien: 世界觀/世界观 (sè-kài-koan)
- Mandarin: 世界觀/世界观 (zh) (shìjièguān)
- Czech: světový názor m, světonázor m
- Danish: verdensanskuelse c, verdenssyn n
- Dutch: wereldbeeld (nl) n, wereldbeschouwing (nl) f
- Esperanto: mondkoncepto, mondbildo
- Estonian: maailmavaade
- Finnish: maailmankatsomus (fi)
- French: vision du monde (fr) f
- Georgian: მსოფლმხედველობა (msoplmxedveloba)
- German: Weltanschauung (de) f, Weltbild (de) n
- Greek: κοσμοθεωρία (el) f (kosmotheoría), κοσμοείδωλο (el) n (kosmoeídolo)
- Hungarian: világnézet (hu), világszemlélet (hu)
- Indonesian: pandangan dunia
- Italian: Weltanschauung f (literary), visione del mondo f, concezione del mondo f
- Japanese: 世界観 (ja) (せかいかん, sekaikan)
- Kazakh: дүниетаным (dünietanym)
- Korean: 세계관(世界觀) (ko) (segyegwan)
- Macedonian: светоглед m (svetogled)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verdensanskuelse m
- Polish: światopogląd (pl) m
- Portuguese: visão de mundo f, mundividência f, cosmovisão (pt) f
- Romanian: weltanschauung (ro) n, concepție despre lume (ro) f
- Russian: мировосприя́тие (ru) n (mirovosprijátije), мироощуще́ние (ru) n (mirooščuščénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: светона́зор m, свјетона́зор m
- Roman: svetonázor m, svjetonázor (sh) m
- Slovak: svetonázor m
- Spanish: cosmovisión (es) f, visión del mundo, forma de ver la vida, mundovisión f
- Swedish: världsåskådning (sv) c, världsbild (sv) c
- Thai: ทัศนะต่อโลก (tát-sà-ná-dtɔ̀ɔ-lôok)
- Turkish: dünya görüşü (tr)
- Ukrainian: світосприйняття́ n (svitospryjnjattjá), світовідчуття́ n (svitovidčuttjá)
- Vietnamese: thế giới quan (vi) (世界觀)
- West Frisian: wrâldbyld n
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totality of one's beliefs about reality
general philosophy or view of life