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Definition von congeries im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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Definition von congeries im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A collection or aggregation of disparate items

It was not what I was that I disliked, I mean the singular, essential me - although I grant that even the notion of an essential, singular self is problematic - but the congeries of affects, inclinations, received ideas, class tics, that my birth and upbringing had bestowed on me in place of a personality.

{n} a mass of small bodies, heap, pile

{i} collection; amassment

a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation

Silbentrennung

con·ge·ries

Etymologie

() * From Latin congeriēs ‘heap, mass, pile’, from congerĕre ‘carry together’.