world picture
English
editEtymology
editFrom world + picture, probably after German Weltbild.
Noun
editworld picture (plural world pictures)
- A particular conception or idea of life; a worldview. [from 19th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 275:
- Astrology was thus less a separate discipline than an aspect of a generally accepted world picture.
- 2006 December 20, Jackie Ashley, The Guardian:
- 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.