Umweltn.
/ˈʊmvɛlt/ The outer world, or reality, as it affects the organisms inhabiting it.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > a surrounding space or area > totality of surroundings or environment
circumstancea1340
encompassure1600
environry1600
vironry1600
attendment1646
circumambiency1646
ambience1648
environment1725
circumjacency1751
environ1762
environage1831
setting1841
enshrinement1849
entourage1850
milieu1854
surroundings1861
ambiente1862
mise-en-scène1871
surround1922
Umwelt1964
1964 M. King Heidegger's Philos. ii. ii. 96 One suggestion which Heidegger undoubtedly intends to convey with Umwelt is of a world that is closest and most familiar to man... We shall paraphrase Umwelt by ‘the first and nearest world’.
1971 E. O. Wilson Insect Societies (1972) xi. 209/2 The various species of ants are generally similar to the honeybee in their Umwelten.
1973 J. S. Bruner Beyond Information Given xviii. 318 Modern ethnological conceptions are centrally concerned with representation in such mechanisms as releasers and imprinting, much of it deriving from the originating idea of the Umwelt first proposed by von Uexküll.
1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan Écrits i. 4 To break out of the circle of the Innenwelt into the Umwelt generates the inexhaustible quadrature of the ego's verifications.
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