Usually means: Comprehensive worldview or philosophical outlook.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word weltanschauung:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Weltanschauung, Weltanschauung, weltanschauung: Merriam-Webster
  2. Weltanschauung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Weltanschauung: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Weltanschauung: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Weltanschauung: Vocabulary.com
  6. Weltanschauung, weltanschauung: Wordnik
  7. weltanschauung: Wiktionary
  8. Weltanschauung: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. weltanschauung: Dictionary.com
  10. weltanschauung: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Weltanschauung: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Weltanschauung: Rhymezone
  13. weltanschauung: FreeDictionary.org
  14. weltanschauung: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Weltanschauung: Foreign Words and Phrases
  16. Weltanschauung: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Weltanschauung: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Weltanschauung: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weltanschauung: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See weltanschauungen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (weltanschauung)

noun:  A person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview.

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