Meaning of Umwelt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Umwelt.
   alt-of
2. One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.

Examples

“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.”

“... 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.”

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