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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