Weltanschauung

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Weltanschauung refers to an apprehension, usually one stemming from a specific standpoint.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Today, some of the best photos in Us Weekly come from Instagram, one of the many descendants of the “Just Like Us” Weltanschauung.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2016

This season’s Oscar favorites “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” seem to fall into the élite brospeak Weltanschauung, tracing impossible physical trials for revenge and a supposed moral order.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

About the waves, Mr. Finnegan tells us, “I realized I was seeing long German words in Gothic script, Arbeiterpartei and Oberkommando and Weltanschauung and Götterdämmerung, marching incongruously across the warm gray walls.”

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2015

Likewise all of our science and the greater part of our nomenclature have arisen out of the sphere of thought contained in the practical Weltanschauung, which centred early in fetishism and related thoughts.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various