Noun
Lebenswelt (usually uncountable, plural Lebenswelten)
(chiefly in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl) The sum total of all immediate phenomena which constitute the world of an individual or of a corporate life; life-world.
Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt, it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt . It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality. Herbert Marcuse
According to Merleau-Ponty, perception has an active dimension, in that it is a primordial openness to the lifeworld (to the "Lebenswelt"). Source: Internet
The "object" of such an analysis is the meaningful lived world of everyday life: the "Lebenswelt", or life-world (Husserl:1889). Source: Internet