Wissenschaft

• pl.Wissenschaften

1. academia, scholarship (collective discipline of learning acquired through a scientific or scholarly method; totality of knowledge derived from scientific inquiry)
2. science (a branch of knowledge or academic discipline dealing with a systematic body of facts or truths)
3. academia, academic community
4. the state of being acquainted with a circumstance, cognizance
5. science, the sciences (in general), humanities taken as a whole