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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from German Zeitgeist (literally “time-spirit”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈtsaɪtˌɡaɪst/, /ˈzaɪtˌɡaɪst/
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Noun[edit]
zeitgeist (plural zeitgeists or zeitgeister or zeitgeisten)
- The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.
- Synonyms: spiritus mundi, temper of the times, tenor of the times
- 1958, Martin Luther King Jr., “Rosa Parks' Arrest”, in Stride Toward Freedom:
- She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn. She was a victim of both the forces of history and the forces of destiny. She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time.
- 1996, Michael Vanden Heuvel, Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- After quickly summarizing the zeitgeisten of the Greek, Elizabethan, and early modern periods and their effects on the theatre, Rice turns to the contemporary world.
- 2007 December 9, Scott Timberg, quoting Annalee Newitz, “The descent of a sci-fi guru”, in Los Angeles Times[1]:
- [Robert] Heinlein’s gift was to catch the zeitgeist. “That’s what made him so successful, but it makes his work seem dated.”
- 2014 February 10, Anthony Faiola, “Swiss vote to limit foreign workers captures growing European fears about immigration”, in The Washington Post[2], archived from the original on 2014-02-11:
- The vote also stoked fears that Swiss citizens were reflecting the zeitgeist across Europe, where right-wing populists increasingly are seizing the spotlight with an anti-immigration political agenda.
Usage notes[edit]
- The German term, Zeitgeist, is commonly not pluralized. Geist (“ghost, spirit”) however has the plural Geister.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the spirit of the age
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Further reading[edit]
Danish[edit]
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Noun[edit]
zeitgeist c (singular definite zeitgeisten, not used in plural form)
- zeitgeist
- 2013, Lars Holger Holm, Kenneth Maximilian Geneser, Gotisk, →ISBN, page 140:
- De bliver dermed til et fænomen i tiden, til tidsbilleder, som kan tydes og bruges i en afsøgning af zeitgeisten.
- They thus become a phenomenon of the time, time-images, that may be deciphered and used in an investigation of the zeitgeist.
- 2010, Henrik List, Sidste nat i kødbyen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
- Og hvem ville så bryde sig om at være lyseslukker til zeitgeistens swingerfest? Hvem ville så sige nej tak til en plads i VIP-afdelingen til den store, subkulturelle love-in?
- And who would then like to be a party-pooper at the swinger's party of the zeitgeist? Who would then refuse a spot in the VIP section at the big, subcultural love-in?
Declension[edit]
Declension of zeitgeist
| common gender |
Singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | zeitgeist | zeitgeisten |
| genitive | zeitgeists | zeitgeistens |
Synonyms[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Zeitgeist.
Noun[edit]
zeitgeist m (plural zeitgeists)
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