Wissenschaft

German (Berlin)

/ˈvɪsənʃaft/

noun
Definitions
  • science a branch of knowledge or academic discipline dealing with a systematic body of facts or truths
  • academia, scholarship collective discipline of learning acquired through a scientific or scholarly method, totality of knowledge derived from scientific inquiry
  • academia, academic community
  • the state of being acquainted with a circumstance, cognizance
  • science, the sciences (in general), humanities taken as a whole

Etymology

Affix from German Wissen (knowledge).

Origin

German (Berlin)

Wissen

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knowledge

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