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‖ Zeitgeist|ˈtsaɪtgaɪst|
Also Zeit Geist, Zeit-Geist (both rare), and with lower-case initial.
[G., f. zeit time + geist spirit.]
The spirit or genius which marks the thought or feeling of a period or age.
1848M. Arnold Let. Nov. (1932) 95, I..took up Obermann, and refuged myself with him..against your Zeit Geist. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma v. 129 It is what we call the Time-Spirit that is sapping the proof from miracles,—it is the ‘Zeit-Geist’ itself. 1876Mind I. 369 There is a Zeitgeist, he says. 1884Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 254 For realism in one form or another is the zeitgeist which will master us all. 1889G. B. Shaw Let. Aug. (1965) I. 222 My business is to incarnate the Zeitgeist. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 5 Jan. 15/2 Rome has undergone radical changes, for the year 1870 has intervened, and the Zeitgeist has occupied and is rebuilding the city. 1933A. Huxley Let. 9 Oct. (1969) 374 The Zeitgeist is a most dismal animal and I wish to heaven one cd escape from its clutches. 1946Auden Litany & Anthem for S. Matthew's Day, May we worship neither the flux of chance, nor the wheel of fortune, nor the spiral of the zeit-geist. 1972Science 2 June 991/3 A clear mark of the Zeitgeist of the late 1960's and the 1970's is the increased demand for participation in decision-making by those affected by it. 1982D. Piper Image of Poet i. 13 Shakespeare becomes in a sense an ever-changing embodiment of the Zeitgeist. |