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WORLD VIEW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does world view mean?
• WORLD VIEW (noun)
The noun WORLD VIEW has 1 sense:
1. a comprehensive view of the world and human life
Familiarity information: WORLD VIEW 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 ("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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