Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Gemütlichkeit.
Germany became a romantic land defined by gemutlichkeit—or coziness.
2007, Harold Flagg, GI Odyssey: World War II Memoir/Novella, →ISBN, page 663 more examples
For your last summer picnic, try to capture the spirit of gemutlichkeit, and maybe the old Bavarian saying will come true: "Mit bayrischer Gemutlichkeit, da kommt man noch einal soweit," (with Bavarian gemutlichkeit, you will achieve more things in the long run).
1985 July, “Bavarian Oktoberfest”, in Vegetarian Times, number 95, page 46This hut is in the top drawer of all huts, having maintained the gemutlichkeit tradition over many years.
2011, Alan Hartley, Trekking in the Stubai Alps, →ISBN, page 176As for conviviality, it of course connotes sociability, liveliness, festivity, élan, gemutlichkeit—where the sharing of good food and drink fosters fellow-feeling, happiness, boisterous joy in the presence of one's boon companions.
2012, Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, →ISBN, page 13
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