gemeinschaft
- noun
- /ɡəˈmaɪnʃɑft/
- Specialized
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gemeinschaft
- A consensus has gradually been formed among the people of Taiwan that we are "all in the same boat" and that Taiwan is a Gemeinschaft, or community.
Examples
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A generation of historians who came of age during the 1960s counterculture tend to romanticize and idealize the Gemeinschaft of colonial society.
Academic text (1994) -
The findings seem to fit closely with the classical theories of community, particularly those of Tönnies and his concept of Gemeinschaft.
Academic text (2000) -
Is this not Gemeinschaft, pure and simple?
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There is little Gesellschaft and even less Gemeinschaft in the international system.
Academic text (1990) -
A workplace in Japan is still more of a Gemeinschaft rather than a Gesellschaft.
Academic text (1990) -
Gemeinschaft versus Gesellschaft, cohesion versus atomization, the local versus the modern: the nineteenth-century sense of community.
Academic text (2000) -
The ubiquity of communalization processes is more effectively captured in Weber's refashioning of the contrast between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
Academic text (1990) -
While this social situation will never encourage the creation of the kind of community longed for by liberalism's critics, the Gemeinschaft of a Robert Bellah or an Alisdair MacIntyre, it will certainly not discourage the creation of "a civil society of the democratic sort."
Academic text (1990) -
In a small village, the sense of belonging and strong relationships define their gemeinschaft.
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The community library serves as a hub for social gatherings, reinforcing the gemeinschaft among the locals.
Synonyms
∞
2.8
A group of people who live in the same area, like a neighborhood
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2.7
People who meet, talk, and feel they belong together
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gemeinschaft comes from German parts gemein meaning 'common' and -schaft, like the English ending -ship, meaning a group. So gemeinschaft is a group of people who share close ties and support each other, which is why it means a close-knit community.