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Subject: Weltanschauung: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Dec. 14, 2014
Word of the Day

Weltanschauung Audio Pronunciation
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\VELT-ahn-shou-oong\
noun
1. German. a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
Quotes
There's nothing in our Weltanschauung, carefully considered, that could object to a masculine eros.
-- Jonathan Littell, translated by Charlotte Mandell, The Kindly Ones, 2009
Origin
Weltanschauung entered English in the 1860s from German meaning "world-view."
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