thought-world

See also: thoughtworld

English

From thought +‎ world. Compare German Gedankenwelt.

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.

conceptual universe