Definition of Gemeinschaft in English:
Gemeinschaft
noun ɡəˈmʌɪnʃaftɡəˈmīnˌSHäft
mass nounSocial relations between individuals, based on close personal and family ties; community.
Contrasted with Gesellschaft
Example sentencesExamples
- He has suggested that such communities preserve a residue of traditional Gemeinschaft amid the more individualistic and impersonal Gesellschaft of modernity.
- All EU member states strive toward achieving a European Gemeinschaft without anticipating a particular political framework such as a federation, confederation or European commonwealth.
- But this pre-modern Gemeinschaft conception of an all-encompassing community that members unreflectively endorse seemed distinctly ill-suited for complex and conflict-ridden large-scale industrialized societies.
- Such religions play a crucial role in binding people together into tight Gemeinschaft communities and separating them from other communities.
- It is less than a federation and more than a regime, a kind of confederation but not yet a Gemeinschaft, neither state nor ordinary international organization.
Origin
German, from gemein 'common' + -schaft (see -ship).