thought-world
See also: thoughtworld
English
Etymology
From thought + world. Compare German Gedankenwelt.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθɔːtwəːld/
Noun
thought-world (plural thought-worlds)
- The world as seen in terms of the attitudes, belief systems, assumptions etc. of a given society or people.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 256:
- What remains for scholars of Islam to achieve is the equivalent of Western Christian culture's patient analysis of the documents at the heart of Christian faith, to gain a clearer picture of the society and thought-world in which the Qur'an was created.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 256:
Translations
conceptual universe
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