WORLDVIEW

Meaning of WORLDVIEW in English

noun Date: 1858 weltanschauung

Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012

WORLDVIEW — noun Date: 1858 : weltanschauung
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WORLDVIEW — [world.view] n (1858): weltanschauung
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WORLDVIEW — worldview BrE AmE ˌwɜːld ˈvjuː AmE \ ˌwɝːld- ▷ worldview|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WORLDVIEW — Pronunciation: - ˌ vyü Function: noun Date: 1858 : WELTANSCHAUUNG
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WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY — Use of alleged supernatural powers, usually to control people or events. Sorcery is sometimes distinguished from witchcraft in that sorcery …
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WICCA — Modern Western witchcraft movement. Some practitioners consider Wicca the religion of pre-Christian Europe, forced underground by the Christian church. That …
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RACISM — Any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive …
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PLANCK, MAX (KARL ERNST LUDWIG) — born April 23, 1858, Kiel, Schleswig died Oct. 4, 1947, Göttingen, W.Ger. German physicist. He studied at the Universities of …
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MYTH — Traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the worldview of a people or explain a …
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LENIN, VLADIMIR (ILICH) — orig. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov born April 22, 1870, Simbirsk, Russia died Jan. 21, 1924, Gorki, near Moscow Founder of the …
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ETHNOCENTRISM — Tendency to interpret or evaluate other cultures in terms of one's own. Generally considered a human universal, it is evident …
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ENLIGHTENMENT — European intellectual movement of the 17th–18th century in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were blended into a …
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ASTROLOGY — In ancient times it was inseparable from {{link=astronomy">astronomy . It originated in Mesopotamia (с 3rd millennium BC) and spread to …
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AFROCENTRISM — Cultural, political, and ideological movement. Most Afrocentrists are African Americans who regard all blacks as syncretic Africans and who believe …
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ADAMS, HENRY (BROOKS) — born Feb. 16, 1838, Boston, Mass., U.S. died March 27, 1918, Washington, D.C. U.S. historian and man of letters. A …
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SHAMANISM — a religious phenomenon centred on the shaman, an ecstatic figure believed to have power to heal the sick and to …
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SATANISM — also called Devil Worship, worship of Satan, or the devil, the personality or principle regarded by the Judeo-Christian tradition as …
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OCCULTISM — various theories and practices involving a belief in and knowledge or use of supernatural forces or beings. Such beliefs and …
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MYTH — a story, usually of unknown origin and at least partially traditional, that ostensibly relates actual events to explain some practice, …
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INDUSTRIAL MUSIC — dissonant electronic music that arose in the late 1970s in response to punk rock. Coined by British postpunk experimentalists Throbbing …
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ASTROLOGY — type of divination that consists in interpreting the influence of planets and stars on earthly affairs in order to predict …
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SOUTHEAST ASIA — region of Asia lying roughly between the Indian and the Pacific oceans and between the Asian landmass and Australia. It …
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SHINGON — ( (Japanese: True Word), ) Chinese Ch'en-yen, esoteric Buddhist sect that has had a considerable following in Japan since its …
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RICARDO (LEITE), CASSIANO — born , July 26, 1895, So Jos dos Campos, Braz. died Jan. 14, 1974, Rio de Janeiro poet, essayist, literary …
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PURDY, JAMES — born July 17, 1923, Ohio, U.S. American novelist and short-story writer whose works explored the American way of life and …
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PHILANTHROPINUM — late 18th-century school founded in Dessau, Ger., by the educator Johann Bernhard Basedow. Aiming to foster in its students a …
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PAPINIAN — born AD 140, , probably at Emesa, Syria died 212 Latin in full Aemilius Papinianus Roman jurist who posthumously became …
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NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES — those languages that are indigenous to the United States and subarctic Canada and that are spoken north of the Mexican …
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MARLEY, BOB — born Feb. 6, 1945, Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica died May 11, 1981, Miami, Fla., U.S. Bob Marley. in full …
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KELVIN (OF LARGS), WILLIAM THOMSON, BARON — also called (186692) Sir William Thomson born June 26, 1824, Belfast, County Antrim, Ire. [now in Northern Ireland] died Dec. …
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COSMOS — Hubble inferred a uniformity in the spatial distribution of galaxies through number counts in deep photographic surveys of selected areas …
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MECHANISTIC — adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Burns and Stalker found that organic structures were better able to respond to change than …
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