A development or evolution coextensive with the duration of the world, but especially of mankind, and including all the events of universal history.(noun)
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Use "world-process" in a sentence
"The behavior of the world-process, he maintained, did not suggest guidance by a moral plan or purpose."
"He rejected flatly the latter's [Hegel] view that these characteristics of the world-process indicated that it was the teleological unfolding of a design or Idea in the experience of an Absolute Mind or Spirit."
"It is far more correct to speak of the dynamization of space rather than of the spatialization of time; the relativization of simultaneity means that “instanta - neous space,” that is, the class of simultaneously exist - ing events, cannot be unambiguously carved out of the four-dimensional world-process."