umwelt
See also: Umwelt
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]umwelt (plural umwelts or umwelten)
- Alternative letter-case form of Umwelt
- 2006, Chris Arthur, “Empty Room”, in Southwest Review, volume 91, number 3, pages 295–312, 18p:
- ... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures.
- 2008 June 19, Claudia La Rocco, “An Ordinary-Looking Bunch, Reflecting the Random Activities of Others”, in New York Times[1]:
- We keep going, locked into our little umwelts, only occasionally remembering to look up.
- 2024 November 22, Stephanie Hanes, Melanie Stetson Freeman, “Moody chickens? Playful bumblebees? Science decodes the rich inner lives of animals.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- 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.