Synonyms:
environment
Meaning: the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room"
Synonyms:
environment, environs, surroundings, surround
Meaning: the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
Usage examples
THE WILDERNESS ENVIRONMENT.
And so the environment shapes and affects the animal.
She had the supreme good fortune to be in accord with her environment.
"Their descendants are still there, completely adapted to the environment.
Hence to develop and train mind is to provide an environment which induces such activity.
"The environment of the Commander-in-chief is strongly suggestive of his conduct of the war.
The environment was circumscribed, but there were outlook, sunshine, ventilation--three good things.
Yet somehow the whole environment seemed only asleep, and to wear even in sleep an air of expectation.
The more perfect the economic environment, the higher the incomes even of those who own no part of the machinery.
The latter makes the momentary act a measure of value, and ignores the connections of our personal action with the energies of the environment.