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Prevalent ideas and spirit of the time
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zeitgeist
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In free software , Zeitgeist is a software service which logs the users 's activities and events, anywhere from files opened to websites visited and conversations. It makes this information readily available for other applications to use in the form of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, from German Zeitgeist (Herder, 1769), "spirit of the age," literally "time-spirit," from Zeit "time" (see tide (n.)) + Geist "spirit" (see ghost (n.)). Carlyle has it as a German word in "Sartor Resartus" (1840) and translates it as "Time-Spirit."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zeitgeist \Zeit"geist`\, n. [G.; zeit time + geist spirit. See Tide , n.; Ghost , n.] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But those who fought for debt relief should not underestimate the success they have had in changing the zeitgeist . ▪ Or maybe Letterman, circa 1997, occupies a different niche in the cultural zeitgeist .
Usage examples of zeitgeist.
And while her success at integrating these levels might be spotty, she had experienced first hand those depths, that higher realm, where the Dreamtime and creative inspiration, the collective and the personal, the zeitgeist and the collective unconscious arise as steps in the same dance.
We need a manifestation out of this Dreamtime of yours and into the collective zeitgeist that will persuade the bankers that we can turn the numbers around.
Zeitgeist and premonitions of the future were written in memories of the past, and where in the timeless Now of the Dreamtime, in the collective and individual mythos of the species, in the story of ourselves, we all are that Hero.
We Cicadas eat, breathe, and sleep rumors, so the Market is the perfect expression of our Zeitgeist.
Zeitgeist, of the experience of opium in toxication and a metaphysic of opium.