umwelt
/ˈʊmvɛlt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Umwelt.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Still, a pigeon's worldview -- its Umwelt, ..."
- "... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures."
- "We keep going, locked into our little umwelts, only occasionally remembering to look up."
- "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."