zeitgeist
See also: Zeitgeist
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from German Zeitgeist (“time-spirit”). Equivalent to tide + ghost.
Pronunciation
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Noun
zeitgeist (plural zeitgeists or zeitgeister or zeitgeisten)
- The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period
- 2014 February 10, Anthony Faiola, “Swiss vote to limit foreign workers captures growing European fears about immigration”, in The Washington Post[1], retrieved 2014-02-11:
- The vote also stoked fears that Swiss citizens were reflecting the zeitgeist across Europe, …
- 2000, Meanjin
- For hundreds of years, learned theologians and ordinary people have been working to untangle the Gospel's message of liberation from the zeitgeisten that found scriptural excuses for slavery, war, monarchy, imperialism, homophobia and the subjugation of women.
- 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.
- 1986, Robert Albritton, A Japanese Reconstruction Of Marxist Theory, Springer →ISBN, page 186
- The materiality and complexity of history is absorbed into the most abstract idea which periodizes history into a series of 'zeitgeisten'.
Usage notes
- The German term, Zeitgeist, is commonly not pluralized.
Synonyms
Translations
the spirit of the age
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Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
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.
- De bliver dermed til et fænomen i tiden, til tidsbilleder, som kan tydes og bruges i en afsøgning af zeitgeisten.
- 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?
- 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?
- 2013, Lars Holger Holm, Kenneth Maximilian Geneser, Gotisk →ISBN, page 140
Declension
Declension of zeitgeist
common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | zeitgeist | zeitgeisten |
genitive | zeitgeists | zeitgeistens |
Synonyms
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from German Zeitgeist.
Noun
zeitgeist m (plural s)
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