environment

nouns

the totality of surrounding conditions
"he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room"
is derived from
is a type of (narrower)
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
"the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt
the area in which something exists or lives
"the country--the flat agricultural surround"