Gemütlichkeit
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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And I, at least, find gemütlichkeit tricky to pronounce.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025
A day after I emailed him, he emailed me back, offering up endzeitgemütlichkeit, a combination of endzeit, meaning “end-times,” and gemütlichkeit, meaning “coziness,” with a further sense of calmness and belonging and peace of mind.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025
Over the years I’ve done a lot of typing in hotels, and actually I find even soulless corporate joints perfectly gemütlichkeit when it comes to cuddling up to fictional worlds.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011
For them,141 shall be no memory of that vast and insuperable gemütlichkeit, that superb and pacific democracy, that dwells and shall dwell forever by night in the spirit of the German people.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
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