worldview
noun
world·view
ˈwərl(d)-ˌvyü 
: a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint
called also weltanschauung
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The two groups have very different worldviews.
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Coined by Stephen Covey in his 1989 bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the term refers to a worldview that sees success as a finite pie — if someone else gets a slice, there’s less for you.
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Sonia Esther Soltani, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Feeling comfortable traveling back and forth across scales is really central to the geologic worldview.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 3 July 2025
Corporate alignments are less likely—at least overtly—but the America Party could draw funding and advisory input from a cadre of Silicon Valley insiders sympathetic to Musk's worldview.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
The exchanges, and others like it, raises concerns that the world’s richest man may be trying to influence Grok to follow his own worldview – potentially leading to more errors and glitches, and surfacing important questions about bias, according to experts.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 27 June 2025
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Sonia Esther Soltani, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Feeling comfortable traveling back and forth across scales is really central to the geologic worldview.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 3 July 2025
Corporate alignments are less likely—at least overtly—but the America Party could draw funding and advisory input from a cadre of Silicon Valley insiders sympathetic to Musk's worldview.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
The exchanges, and others like it, raises concerns that the world’s richest man may be trying to influence Grok to follow his own worldview – potentially leading to more errors and glitches, and surfacing important questions about bias, according to experts.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 27 June 2025
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“Worldview.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worldview. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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