noun
umbworld
Umbworld (noun) means the world and surroundings around a person.
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The world and surroundings around a person.
"The cosmos knew a soul parted. But I wasn't alone, the umbworld too shed tears with me."
— Dhruv Shah, Quill It Out (2022)
"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."
— Further Light and Knowledge, evolutionary benefit of homosexuality? (2010)
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Etymology
From umb- (“around, about”) + world, a calque of German Umwelt (early 19th c.). Compare Dutch omwereld, Swedish omvärld, etc., also from the German.
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"umbworld" (noun) means the world and surroundings around a person.
