Wissenschaft

== German == === Alternative forms === Wißenschaft (nonstandard) === Etymology === From late Middle High German wissenschaft (“certificate”); by surface analysis, Wissen (“knowledge”) +‎ -schaft (“-ship; making”). Akin to Dutch wetenschap, Low German Wetenschop, West Frisian wittenskip, Danish videnskab, Norwegian Bokmål vitenskap and Swedish vetenskap. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɪsənʃaft/, [ˈvɪsn̩ʃaft] Hyphenation: Wis‧sen‧schaft === Noun === Wissenschaft f (genitive Wissenschaft, plural Wissenschaften) (countable) science (a branch of knowledge or academic discipline dealing with a systematic body of facts or truths) (uncountable) science, the sciences taken as a whole (uncountable) academia, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through a scientific or scholarly method; totality of knowledge derived from scientific inquiry) (uncountable) academia, academic community (uncountable, obsolete) knowledge, cognizance ==== Usage notes ==== German Wissenschaft always includes the so-called “soft sciences” and is never restricted to natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften), as English science sometimes is. ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === Wissenschaft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Wissenschaft on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de === Further reading === “Wissenschaft”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Wissenschaft” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Wissenschaft” in Duden online