Umwelt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Umwelt is a noun meaning Alternative letter-case form of Umwelt.
Meaning
Alternative letter-case form of Umwelt.
Example Sentences
We keep going, locked into our little umwelts, only occasionally remembering to look up.
... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures.
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.
Word Forms
- umwelts
- umwelten
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include environment, environmental, energy, umbworld, surroundings, ambient.
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