Weltanschauung \Welt"an"schau`ung\, n.; pl. {Weltanschauungen}.
[G.]
Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in,
and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a
philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the
general idea embodied in a cosmology.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]