Meanings
gemütlichkeit1
- misspellingMisspelling of Gemütlichkeit.
Gemütlichkeit2
alternative gemuetlichkeit · alternative gemutlichkeit
- uncountableThe state or fact of being gemütlich; middle-class niceness or cosiness, hospitality.
[…] and Vincent Sheean "the king of gemutlichkeit".
1967, George Thayer, The Farther Shore of Politics, Simon and Schuster5 more examples
John never got over contrasting her taste in clothes coupled with her experiments in domestic interiors and gemutlichkeit.
1933, Paul Horgan, Fault of Angels[…] where’d they all come from, these gray hustlers, what shadows in the Gemütlichkeit of the day were harboring them?
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's RainbowMr. Corde believes in gemutlichkeit more than in public welfare.
1982, Saul Bellow, Dean's DecemberOnce the nation's largest producer of beer, it still is known as a brewing capital, and is famous for its gemutlichkeit (friendly hospitality).
1995 November 12, Brenda Warner Rotzoll, “Milwaukee: A Metropolitan Playground Within Reach”, in Chicago Tribune, TRAVEL, page 1Once upon a time, intellectuals knew they could do their best thinking at home, not in a public venue, and that debate would be helped along by food and drink. But is such gemütlichkeit possible in this country in 2012, when our young century has already been strafed by culture wars and juvenile attack ads?
2012 August 22, Mark Oppenheimer, “After Dinner, the Fireworks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2019
Origin
- GermanGemütlichkeit
- EnglishGemütlichkeit
Unadapted borrowing from German Gemütlichkeit.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian уют
- уют (ujut)coziness
Danish hygge, gemytlighed
- hyggecoziness
- gemytlighedcoziness
Dutch gezelligheid
- gezelligheidcoziness
German Gemütlichkeit
- Gemütlichkeitcoziness
Norwegian hygge
- hyggecoziness
Russian ую́т
- ую́т (ujút)coziness
Swedish gemyt, mys
- gemytcoziness
- myscoziness
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gemütlichkeit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gem%C3%BCtlichkeit
“gemütlichkeit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gem%C3%BCtlichkeit. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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