Weltanschauung - meaning and definition. What is Weltanschauung
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What (who) is Weltanschauung - definition

FUNDAMENTAL COGNITIVE ORIENTATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL OR SOCIETY ENCOMPASSING THE ENTIRETY OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR SOCIETY'S KNOWLEDGE AND POINT OF VIEW
Weltanschauung; Worldviews; Weltanschaung; Weltanshauung; World-view; World views; World outlook; World View; Weltanschauungen; Cosmovision; Worldveiw; Viewing the world; World view; Religious worldview
  • awareness of one's own mortality]].
  • Religious practices will tie closely to a religion's worldview.

Weltanschauung         
['v?lt?an?a???]
¦ noun (plural Weltanschauungen -(?)n) a particular philosophy or view of life; a world view.
Origin
Ger., from Welt 'world' + Anschauung 'perception'.
Weltanschauung         
·add. ·noun Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology.
world view         
also world-view (world views)
A person's world view is the way they see and understand the world, especially regarding issues such as politics, philosophy, and religion.
Many artists express their world view in their work.
N-COUNT: with supp

Wikipedia

Worldview

A worldview or a world-view or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. A worldview can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics.

Examples of use of Weltanschauung
1. Those who swore that they would forever remain adversaries with nothing in common, who saw in each other an existential threat to their deepest weltanschauung, now find themselves thrown together in the arena of battle.
2. On the face of it, it would be natural for any politician to wish, with all his might, to have the job with the purpose of fulfilling an agenda and a weltanschauung that he has formulated over the years.
3. In recent years, however, there have been disturbing signs that the IPN has been diverted from its initial mission and has actually been used as an instrument to promote a Polish nationalist weltanschauung and whitewash terrible stains on Poland‘s escutcheon.
4. This lengthy parade of misfortune inspired some of the world‘s least–optimistic folk sayings ("Happiness is where we aren‘t," "We were born to make Kafka come true") and a national Weltanschauung in which the absence of bad news is good news.