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lifeworld

lifeworld

8.3
The everyday world a person or group lives in and experiences
  • noun
  • /ˈlaɪfˌwɜrd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mundo de vida
  • In her book, she explores how technology impacts the lifeworld of urban teenagers today.
  • lifeworld existentials
  • lifeworld existentials (corporeality
  • lifeworld existentials (corporeality, relationality

Examples

  • Understanding the concept of lifeworld can help us appreciate the different experiences people have in society.

  • Here again, we see how the four lifeworld existentials are interrelated.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The question then arises of how best to understand the relationship of virtual worlds to the other lifeworld contexts in which members find themselves.

    Academic text (2010)
  • As noted previously, accounts such as this encompass elements of all four lifeworlds.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Again, to return to Habermas's forms of expression, all this amounts to the progressive colonization of the lifeworld by the system.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Since educational institutions are a part of society, they mirror the pathology of the wider world's lifeworld/system relationship.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Peter Berger calls modernity's challenge to ethnicity "the pluralization of lifeworlds."

    Academic text (1992)
  • Castaneda's books spoke to an increasing disgruntlement with the traditional academic paradigms and their remoteness from individuals' lifeworlds.

    Academic text (1992)
  • As personal geographies are necessarily adjusting to and promoting modern and postmodern lifeworlds, they are increasingly assuming their meaning from the ties between a placeless self and surroundings.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The lifeworld of rural communities often revolves around family traditions and local customs.

Synonyms

world
vslifeworld
1.0

A group of people connected by the same job or interest

focuses on personal everyday experience and social reality as lived together
real life
vslifeworld
266 2.3

The everyday world people live in outside books or theory

emphasizes shared personal social reality lived by people rather than general practice
real world
vslifeworld
253 3.9

Everyday life and work outside study or theory

focuses more on personal lived social reality of individuals or groups

Surface Forms

lifeworld singular
lifeworlds plural

Morphology

lifeworld = life + world (semi-transparent) = life + world

The components 'life' and 'world' are individually transparent, but the compound is a specialized philosophical term (Lebenswelt) with a technical nuance that may not be obvious to B1 learners.

Etymology

Lifeworld joins life and world and comes from the German Lebenswelt, which means 'life-world'. It was used by philosophers to talk about the ordinary world people live in, so lifeworld means the everyday world of personal experience.