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What is (Wittgenstein's/Dilthey's) 'Lifeworld'?

I came across something in a paper, recently: "Here, ‘Life’ is not to be taken in a biological sense, but in the one intended in Wilhelm Dilthey’s use of ‘Leben’ – Life as what he and others, including Wittgenstein, refer to as the human ‘lifeworld’ or the human ‘form(s) of life’."

What is this 'lifeworld'? I've googled and can't seem to get a clear understanding. Is it kind of like Heidegger's notion of World? A sort of phenomenological pre-condition, the world as we experience it?

Thanks :)
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The world as people experience and live in it basically. Your life world isn't the (purportedly) objective world of the sciences, but a specific world shaped by your understandings and subjective views. Different people then can literally live in different life-worlds so to speak. Although there is an intersubjective element to it too.