worldview

CEFRB2

/wˈɜˌrldvju/

noun

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noun
A person's beliefs about life and how the world works.
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noun
Extra detail
A general philosophy or view of life.

Examples

His entire life and worldview is based on hatred.
This person's worldview is officially unhealthy.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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noun

Extra meanings

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

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The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.
Near-synonym: cosmology
Near-synonym: cosmovision

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According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German.
2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN
“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.
2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
The bombing comes over a week after ISD released a report about how nihilistic worldviews are fueling violence in the US and Europe.
2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 May 2025
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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 7
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.
1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57

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Origin

noun

A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world + view.

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A person's blank is shaped by their culture, religion, and life experiences.