world picture

plural world pictures

1. A particular conception or idea of life; a worldview.First known use 19th c.

   Astrology was thus less a separate discipline than an aspect of a generally accepted world picture.

   1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 275

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   But painting a world picture of good and evil rather than trying understand and reconcile different races and religions is only going to make things worse.

   2006 December 20, Jackie Ashley, The Guardian