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Weltanschauung
VEL-tawn-SHA-uhng
noun
a world view; a global perspective; a view of the universe and man's place in it
1915R.W. Seton-Watson and J. Dover Wilson and Alfred E. Zimmern and and Arthur GreenwoodThe War and DemocracyThis is not the place in which to analyse in detail the outlook upon life (Weltanschauung) of the man in the street in modern Germany.1972Philip Jose FarmerTime's Last Gift...the man had a somewhat non-Homo sapiens Weltanschauung.1980John Kennedy TooleA Confederacy of DuncesYou must realize the fear and hatred which my Weltanschauung instills in people.

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