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worldview

noun

Etymology

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

  1. calqued from Weltanschauung

Definitions

  1. A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it

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

    • 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.

  2. The totality of one's beliefs about reality.

    • Near-synonym: cosmology

  3. A general philosophy or view of life.

    • The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at worldview. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at worldview. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at worldview

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA