English Explanatory Dictionary

lifeworld

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The world "as lived" prior to reflective representation or analysis.

Word forms

lifeworld lifeworlds

Etymology

Calque of German Lebenswelt, coined by German philosopher Edmund Husserl.

Synonyms

Lebenswelt
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