world view

1. 1.

   a comprehensive view of the world and human life

   SynonymsWeltanschauung

   Broaderposition

   Narrowerclockwork universe

Questions about world view

What does world view mean?

world view means "a comprehensive view of the world and human life".

What is another word for world view?

Close synonyms include Weltanschauung. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is world view a common word?

world view is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.