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Zeitgeist   /tsˈaɪtgˌaɪst/   Listen
Zeitgeist

noun
1.
The spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation.





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"Zeitgeist" Quotes from Famous Books



... incoming adult heron, swinging in from a day's fishing along the coast. It went on and vanished among the fronds of a distant island; but the calm had been broken, and through all the stems there ran a restless sense of anticipation, a zeitgeist of prophetic import. One felt that memory of past things was dimming, and content with present comfort was no longer dominant. It was the future to which both the baby herons and I were looking, and for them realization came quickly. The sun had sunk still ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe
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... one believed less in Utopias than he, did believe in the Zeitgeist—simply for comfort's sake if for no stronger reason. Well, the Zeitgeist was descending upon Polchester, and Ronder was its agent. Progress? No, Ronder did not believe in Progress. But in the House of Life there are many rooms; once and again ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole
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