Gesellschaft

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Gesellschaft

/ɡəˈzɛlʃaft/

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Borrowed from German Gesellschaft, from Geselle + -schaft. Compare to English gemeinschaft.

noun Gesellschaften · Gesellschafts · gesellschaft

A hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft. Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.

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@misc{gesellschaft_2026,
  title = {Gesellschaft},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gesellschaft},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}