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Definition of "weltanschauung" [weltanschauung]

  • A person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview (noun)

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Use "weltanschauung" in a sentence
  • "Their weltanschauung is a tangle of conceptual binaries, self-affirming inferences, and prior assumptions that treat image as reality."
  • "The word weltanschauung appears so useful that English has borrowed the original form and also made a loan translation: world view."
  • "For the very prolific Grooms has a compassionate-but-absurdist weltanschauung that allows us to view ourselves -- foibles & eccentricities -- with gentle humor."