A comprehensive representation of the world and our place in it, as is found in religions, is known as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or creation of the world, while eschatology …

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If you are/live in a world of your own or are/live in your own (little) world, you spend so much time thinking about something that you do not notice what is happening around you.

You can use world to describe someone or something that is one of the most important or significant of its kind on earth. China has once again emerged as a world power.