umbworld
nounEtymology
From umb- (“around, about”) + world, a calque of German Umwelt (early 19th c.). Compare Dutch omwereld, Swedish omvärld, etc., also from the German.
Definitions
The surrounding world
The surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment.
- Religion has grown out of our folk knowledge, out of our group explanations of the how’s and why’s of the umbworld.
- The evolutionary process is far more complex than that (as organisms interact with their umbworld); it is always best to remember to have a parsimonious approach to any and all claims to adaptability or evolutionary function of a trait.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for umbworld. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA