Feminine
Wissenschaft
Sentences
Sein Werk gab zahlreiche Impulse in der Wissenschaft .
His work gave numerous impulses in science.
Meaning
- (countable, feminine) science (a branch of knowledge or academic discipline dealing with a systematic body of facts or truths)
- (feminine, uncountable) science, the sciences taken as a whole
- (feminine, uncountable) academia, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through a scientific or scholarly method; totality of knowledge derived from scientific inquiry)
- (feminine, uncountable) academia, academic community
- (feminine, obsolete, uncountable) knowledge, cognizance
Concepts
competency
practical knowledge
Synonyms
Belesenheit
Episteme
Naturphilosophie
Wiſſenſchaft
Gelehrtheit
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɪsənʃaft/
Etymology
In summary
From late Middle High German wissenschaft (“certificate”); by surface analysis, Wissen (“knowledge”) + -schaft (“-ship; making”). Akin to Dutch wetenschap, Low German Wetenschop, West Frisian wittenskip, Danish videnskab, Norwegian Bokmål vitenskap and Swedish vetenskap.
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