Phi-lo-so-phie
Noun, feminine [the]
- Striving for knowledge about the meaning of life, the nature of the world and the position of man in the world; doctrine, science of the knowledge of the meaning of life, the world and the position of man in the world.
- personal way of looking at life and things
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