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WELTANSCHAUUNG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Weltanschauung mean?
• WELTANSCHAUUNG (noun)
The noun WELTANSCHAUUNG has 1 sense:
1. a comprehensive view of the world and human life
Familiarity information: WELTANSCHAUUNG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A comprehensive view of the world and human life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
Weltanschauung; world view
Hypernyms ("Weltanschauung" is a kind of...):
perspective; position; view (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Weltanschauung"):
clockwork universe (the view that the universe resembles a clock built by God and ticking along according to Newtonian mechanics)
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