Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.
Etymologies
- From German Umwelt ("environment"). More at um-, Welt. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The very close reading of the relevant sections of the 29/30 course is clear and sober, and instead of propagating "heideggerese," clarifies it, cautiously examining and explaining every substantive claim in light of both Heidegger's overall project during these years and Uexküll's contribution especially his notion of the Umwelt to that project.”
“Prepared for the Bundesministeriums für Land - und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (last accessed 12 July 2007) – Steurer, R. and Martinuzzi, A. (2005).”
“We could then consider that this conception of world in the middle of the thirties is midway between the human Umwelt from 1927 and the world considered as the Geviert Fourfold in the fifties.”
“Note 4: The only work currently available is Magdalene Schultz, "The Blood Libel: A Motif in the History of Childhood," Journal of Psychohistory 14, no. 1 (summer 1986): 1 — 24, which, after adding two new paragraphs, she republished as "Projektion versus Realität: Der Ritualmord," in Die Juden in ihrer mittelalterlichen Umwelt, ed.”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Brian Dutton (London, 1971); an Italian version, in Romania 13 (1884): 54 — 55; and several Middle High German poems, in Germania 27 (1882): 129 — 44, discussed most recently in W. Hofmeister, "Das Jüdel im Kontext mittelhochdeutscher literarischer Kindesdarstellungen," in Die Juden in ihrer mittelalterlichen Umwelt, ed.A. Ebenbauer and K. Zatloukal (Vienna, 1991), 91 — 103. back”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“The relationship between the cognizer and its phenomenal world is very much like the relationship between an organism and its Umwelt.”
“Umwelt - und Gesundheitsschden durch die Stromerzeugung.”
“HENTSCHEL, T.: Umwelt - und Gesundheitsrisiken in Entwicklungslandern, in: Erzmetall 44, Nr. 12,1991.”
“Das Smartphone und seine Kamera/Display werden so zum Fenster auf die Umwelt, wissen wo sie sind und wissen wo es was z.”
“Microsoft takes down massive botnet - Microsoft has been granted a license to kill by a federal judge, allowing it to take down the massive Waledac botnet. read more ERP - Planen wir unsere Umwelt mit - Bezogen auf meinen letzten Blog Post Green IT oder wie Microsoft die IT grüner macht habe ich ein interessantes Mail bekommen, welches ich hier als Gastkommentar veröffentliche.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Umwelt’.
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Tricky To Spell or Pronounce
ply, stationary, stationery, monetize, finagle, cartilaginous, apposite, languor, douceur, Umwelt, faze, sequela and 13 more...
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There's a word for it
catkin, pastiche, badonkadonk, biome, omphaloscopy, pogonophobia, reptation, anathema, xyst, commodify, commoditize, monetize and 69 more...
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Fancy Foreign Words
de facto, Zeitgeist, schadenfreude, apropos, per se, Auteur, tookus, de rigueur, xyst, arrivederci, sotto, troika and 15 more...
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Remember Not To Forget
Sephardic, Umwelt, amphiboly, untrammeled, sequela, pandiculation, tensegrity, syncretism, pugilism, shemagh, disquisition, perspicacity and 65 more...
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biologic
protoplasm, microchimerism, organelle, panspermia, housekeeping gene, double crossover, incomplete dominance, bacteriophage, connectomics, antigenic drift, inoculation, punctuated equili... and 138 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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My Good Words
robust, seeth, uncanny, earnest, palpate, belabor, minx, plaintive, endemic, contingent, henceforth, perfunctory and 82 more...
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Loanwords - Lehnwörter
List of German words in the English language, not necessarily with the same meaning. For times you want to sound über-smart.
foosball, witzelsucht, zeitgeist, wunderkind, shlep, angst, Götterdämmerung, hinterland, ersatz, gestalt, schnauzer, Weltschmerz and 34 more...
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qroqqa To break out of the circle of the Innenwelt into the Umwelt generates the inexhaustible quadrature of the ego's verifications.—Lacan May 13, 2013