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Umwelt¹

  • /ˈʊmvɛlt/

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Unadapted borrowing from German Umwelt (“environment”).

noun Umwelts · Umwelten · umwelt

  1. One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it. It seems that these S-E-A-Values are all about what ethnologists call the Umwelt — the area of alarm around members of the brute creation, such as human beings.

umwelt²

noun umwelts · umwelten

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Umwelt ... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures.

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"umwelt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/umwelt. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

umwelt. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/umwelt

Chicago

"umwelt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/umwelt.

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@misc{umwelt_2026,
  title = {umwelt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/umwelt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}