weltfremd

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German

Etymology

Welt +‎ fremd

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛltˌfʁɛmt/
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Adjective

weltfremd (strong nominative masculine singular weltfremder, comparative weltfremder, superlative am weltfremdesten)

  1. naive, unworldly, unfamiliar with the reality, the challenges, and the opportunities of everyday life
    • 1984, Der Spiegel:
      Einem so weltfremden Offizier wäre nie der Verdacht gekommen, sein Ersatz-Kaiser könne rabiat genug sein, ihn als Sittenstrolch zu diffamieren.
      Such a naive officer would never have suspected that his substitute emperor could be so ruthless as to diffame him as a sex offender.
  2. sheltered, cloistered
    • 1932, Kölnische Volkszeitung und Handelsblatt:
      "Köhlerglaube" ist zunächst der Glaube der Köhler, die weltfremd, von Stadt und Menschen abgeschieden, ihrem Handwerk obliegen.
      The "charcoal burners' belief" is in the first place that which the charcoal burners believe, who are sheltered, cut off from the city and the people, and devoted to their trade.
  3. absurd, otherworldly
    • 1999, Heinrich Hannover, Die Republik vor Gericht 1975 - 1995, Berlin: Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, page 9:
      Wie absurd und weltfremd das ist, zeigen die Beispiele derjenigen amerikanischen Soldaten, die den Befehl zur Verlegung an den Golf verweigerten, aber nicht desertierten.
      How absurd and otherworldly this is is shown by examples of American soldiers who disobeyed the order to be transfer to the Gulf, but who didn't desert.

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Further reading

  • weltfremd” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • weltfremd” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon