thought-world

From thought +‎ world. Compare German Gedankenwelt.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɔːtwəːld/

thought-world (plural thought-worlds)

1. 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, published 2010, page 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.

• zeitgeist