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Gemütlichkeit

American  
[guh-myt-likh-kahyt] / gəˈmüt lɪxˌkaɪt /
Or Gemuetlichkeit

noun

German.
  1. warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.


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Frankenmuth’s culture of hospitality, or Gemütlichkeit, dates to the late 19th century, when a brewery and hotels nourished travelers journeying between Saginaw and Flint.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021

The university city, after all, exemplified Gemütlichkeit — it was comfortable with itself, rooted in the West, placid as the surface of the broad river running through it.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2011

Gemütlichkeit is something which he don't know nothing about at all, y'understand, and the first thing you know, Trinkmann, Salonkin says the chairs is back numbers.

From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague

Every time I think of her, she suggests pleasant thoughts—good beer, a fine band, Gemütlichkeit.

From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)