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語源

Borrowed from German Gesellschaft, from Geselle +‎ -schaft. Compare to English gemeinschaft.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛlʃaft/

名詞

Gesellschaft (複数形 Gesellschaften または Gesellschafts)

1. (sociology) A hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.