Weltansicht

plural Weltansichts

1. literaryThe general attitude toward life and reality that an individual or character demonstrates.

   Sometimes they are Copernican in scope, issuing in totally new Weltansichts.

   1983, Charles B. Harris, Passionate Virtuosity: The Fiction of John Barth, page 54

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   The Weltansicht of this poem is a distinct vantage for an appreciation of the scientific man's attitude toward the specific question of immortality.

   1905, The Bookman, volume 21, page 521

   The language we think and speak in shapes our Weltansicht, our perception and understanding of the nature of existence, and those who think primarily in terms of the subject (self) acting on objects (things) are more prone to change and take from what and who is around them to their advantage.

   2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life