Meaning of worldview | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
2. The totality of one's beliefs about reality.
3. A general philosophy or view of life.

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: cosmovision”

“According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German.”

““You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in reply. X users, including many in the tech industry, lambasted the posts, though other users agreed with Musk and said they were gleefully watching him sink into their hateful worldview.”

“The bombing comes over a week after ISD released a report about how nihilistic worldviews are fueling violence in the US and Europe.”

“Near-synonym: cosmology”

“The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.”

“Human beings feel safe and secure when they can stand confidently in the center of things, either in the center of an age or in the center of a class of people with a common world-view, but when they come to an edge, they feel nervous and unsettled.”

“The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.”

“Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic.”

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