world-historical
Adjective
Meaning
world-historical (not comparable)
Pertaining to world history; globally significant. [from 19th c.]
Examples
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
It comforted Germans because it seemingly rationalized their downfall as part of larger world-historical processes.
Philosophers such as Pierre Duhem and Gaston Bachelard also wrote their works with this world-historical approach to science, predating Kuhn by a generation or more.