Noun: umwelt
| Singular | umwelt |
| Plural | umwelts; umwelten |
Sample Sentences
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... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures. [2006, Chris Arthur, “Empty Room”, in Southwest Review, volume 91, number 3, pages 295–312, 18p:]
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We keep going, locked into our little umwelts, only occasionally remembering to look up. [2008 June 19, Claudia La Rocco, “An Ordinary-Looking Bunch, Reflecting the Random Activities of Others”, in New York Times:]
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Author and journalist Ed Yong uses the German term umwelt to describe an organism’s unique sensory perspectives. […] He uses the metaphor of a large house with many windows looking onto a garden. Each animal has its own window. But there are other windows as well, each with a different view of the same place. We humans have our own window, our own particular umwelt. [2024 November 22, Stephanie Hanes, Melanie Stetson Freeman, “Moody chickens? Playful bumblebees? Science decodes the rich inner lives of animals.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:]
Nouns inflected like umwelt
weltanschauung,
sackung,
gestalt,
gadgetbahn,
Thomaskantor,
autobahn,
festschrift,
Urheimat,
Umwelt,
privatdozent,
klomp,
vrouw,
Hausfrau,
gemeinschaft,
hausfrau,
mevrouw,
Hallig,
mynheer,
umwelt,
Aktionsart, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology