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Gemütlichkeit en · NOUN

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Gemütlichkeit.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The state or fact of being gemütlich; middle-class niceness or cosiness, hospitality.
   • Once the nation's largest producer of beer, it still is known as a brewing capital, and is famous for its gemutlichkeit (friendly hospitality). 1995 November 12, Brenda Warner Rotzoll, “Milwaukee: A Metropolitan Playground Within Reach”, in Chicago Tribune, TRAVEL, page 1:
   • […] and Vincent Sheean "the king of gemutlichkeit". 1967, George Thayer, The Farther Shore of Politics, Simon and Schuster:
   • Once upon a time, intellectuals knew they could do their best thinking at home, not in a public venue, and that debate would be helped along by food and drink. But is such gemütlichkeit possible in this country in 2012, when our young century has already been strafed by culture wars and juvenile attack ads? 2012 August 22, Mark Oppenheimer, “After Dinner, the Fireworks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2019:
   • […] where’d they all come from, these gray hustlers, what shadows in the Gemütlichkeit of the day were harboring them? 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
   • Mr. Corde believes in gemutlichkeit more than in public welfare. 1982, Saul Bellow, Dean's December:
   • John never got over contrasting her taste in clothes coupled with her experiments in domestic interiors and gemutlichkeit. 1933, Paul Horgan, Fault of Angels:

Forms

Translations (9)

sv gemyt (coziness) · da hygge (coziness) · da gemytlighed (coziness) · no hygge (coziness) · ru ую́т (coziness) · bg уют (coziness) · sv mys (coziness) · nl gezelligheid (coziness) · de Gemütlichkeit (coziness)