Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a comprehensive view of the world and human life
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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"Weltanschauung"-- A Story of THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES and Academe 2006
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"Weltanschauung" -- A Story of THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES and Academe
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For humor, he has Laura Bush using the word "Weltanschauung," then saying, "pardon my French."
Hark! A Mighty Hiccup Is about to Be Heard: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Entitled "Weltanschauung," this piece was written in the mid-1980s, about fifteen years after the experience it describes.
"Weltanschauung"-- A Story of THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES and Academe 2006
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I still have trouble learning certain very ordinary compounded German words because the seem so much like sociological jargon of the "Weltanschauung" type.
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The general intellectual climate in Holland required of the serious young man - or so it seemed to me - that he work himself through to a "Weltanschauung", a consistent view of the world.
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Schopenhauer’s ethics, pity is elevated to the highest place among the virtues, and very consistently too, seeing that the Weltanschauung is a pessimistic one.
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I will be trying to work the word "Weltanschauung" into conversation at dinner this evening.
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He helped shape a psychological Weltanschauung which is now so thoroughly absorbed as to be a central stream of modernism.
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