Gemutlichkeit

Full definition of gemutlichkeit

Noun

• 1985 , Bavarian Oktoberfest
• 2007 , Harold Flagg , GI Odyssey: World War II Memoir/Novella , Germany became a romantic land defined by gemutlichkeit—or coziness.
• 2011 , Alan Hartley , Trekking in the Stubai Alps , This hut is in the top drawer of all huts, having maintained the gemutlichkeit tradition over many years.
• 2012 , Iain Boal, ‎Janferie Stone, & ‎Michael Watts , West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California , As 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.