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world picture en · NOUN

Etymology

From world + picture, probably after German Weltbild.

Meanings

1. A particular conception or idea of life; a worldview.
   • 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:
   • 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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