Gesellschaft
/ɡəˈzɛlʃaft
/noun [mass noun]
Social relations based on impersonal ties, such as duty to a society or organization. Contrasted with Gemeinschaft.He has suggested that such communities preserve a residue of traditional Gemeinschaft amid the more individualistic and impersonal Gesellschaft of modernity....
- Any particular society is either an example of Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft.
- It's a classic case of the way the Revolution pitted Gesellschaft against Gemeinschaft, modernity against tradition, universal values against local standards.
Origin
German, from Gesell(e) 'companion' + -schaft (see -ship).
- schwag
- Schwann, Theodor
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold
- Schwarzkopf, Dame Elisabeth
- Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
- Schwarzschild black hole
- Schwarzwald
- Schweinfurt
- Schweitzer, Albert
- Schweiz
- Schwerin
- Schwyz
- Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Schütz, Heinrich
- sciaena
- pardao
- pardessus
- pardessus de viole
- pardine
- pardner
- pardon
- pardonable
- pardonably
- pardonee
- pardoner