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Zeitgeist   Listen
noun
Zeitgeist  n.  The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Zeitgeist" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'Zeitgeist,' like many planets, does not move in a circle but in a spiral line? The British world-sovereignty has, as we see, taken a higher flight than did the Roman. Could not this British world-power, by permeating wise diplomacy with ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann

... this by saying that we are required to be made accessible to the influence of the Zeitgeist. There is a difficulty, no doubt, in discovering by what signs we may recognise the utterances of the Zeitgeist; and distinguish between loyalty to the real intellectual leaders and a simple desire to be arrayed in the last ...
— Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies • Sir Leslie Stephen



Words linked to "Zeitgeist" :   flavour, look, spirit, feeling, tone



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