Dic: landscape (as an abstract meaning)

1. N-COUNT : with supp △A landscape is all the features that are important in a particular situation.

• June's events completely altered the political landscape.

2. △the distinctive features of a given area of intellectual activity, regarded as an integrated whole.

• the landscape of the European imagination

3. △An extensive mental view; an interior prospect:

• "They occupy the whole landscape of my thought" (James Thurber).

4. △An extensive mental viewpoint;

• "the political landscape looks bleak without a change of administration"; 
• "we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity".

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