"Weltanschauung" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: [ˈvɛltʔanˌʃaʊ̯ʊŋ] Audio: De-Weltanschauung.ogg
Etymology: Welt (“world”) + Anschauung (“outlook, view”), first attested in Immanuel Kant's Kritik der Urteilskraft (Critique of Judgment, 1790). Etymology templates: {{compound|de|Welt|Anschauung|t1=world|t2=outlook, view}} Welt (“world”) + Anschauung (“outlook, view”) Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Weltanschauung f (genitive Weltanschauung, plural Weltanschauungen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Weltanschauung [genitive], Weltanschauungen [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Weltanschauung [nominative, singular], Weltanschauungen [definite, nominative, plural], Weltanschauung [genitive, singular], Weltanschauungen [definite, genitive, plural], Weltanschauung [dative, singular], Weltanschauungen [dative, definite, plural], Weltanschauung [accusative, singular], Weltanschauungen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. worldview, weltanschauung, philosophy of life, ideology Wikipedia link: Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant Tags: feminine Synonyms: Denkweise, Ideologie, Lebensphilosophie, Philosophie, Weltansicht, Weltbild, Weltsicht, Weltvorstellung Derived forms: weltanschaulich
    Sense id: en-Weltanschauung-de-noun-oD1FBG9k Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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        "Critique of Judgment",
        "Immanuel Kant"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈvɛltʔanˌʃaʊ̯ʊŋ]"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Weltanschauung.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/34/De-Weltanschauung.ogg/De-Weltanschauung.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/De-Weltanschauung.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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