gemutlichkeit (guh-myoo-likh-KYT, -MOOT-) noun

   Warm friendliness; amicability.

[German, from gemutlich, congenial.]

   "Ernst's round figures have an endearingly toylike gemutlichkeit, however,
   and youngsters may still find the out-of folktale experience a diverting
   one."
   Deborah Stevenson, Goldilocks Returns by Lisa Campbell Ernst (review),
   Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, May 1, 2000.

This week's theme: words from the German language.

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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of
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