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zeitgeister

UK/ˈt͡saɪtɡaɪstɐ/UK/ˈzaɪtɡaɪstə/

A form of zeitgeist — The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.

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Meanings

zeitgeister¹

noun

pluralplural of zeitgeist
The moral to this anomaly may be that Zeitgeister are unreliable because afflicted with tunnel vision.
1977, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the Nineteen Thirties: An Informal Social History of the United States 1929–1941, page 369
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Ages, Zeitgeister, national, and racial minds seem to me to have outlived their usefulness, if they ever had any…
1940, Project Muse, Journal of the History of Ideas, page 292
In its largest dimension the dual theme of the novella is an historical antithesis: two ages, two Zeitgeister stand tensely opposed to each other in the painful period of transition.
1974, Dennis MacCort, Perspective on Music in German Fiction: The Music-fiction of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, page 127
There is also a sense in which particular Zeitgeister may have an impact upon facets of the results that are gleaned from an empirical study.
1996, Leslie J. Francis, Susan H. Jones, Psychological Perspectives on Christian Ministry: A Reader, page 58

Zeitgeister²

noun

pluralplural of Zeitgeist

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