zeitgeister
See also: Zeitgeister
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡saɪtɡaɪstɐ/, /ˈzaɪtɡaɪstə/
Noun
zeitgeister
- plural of zeitgeist
- 1940: Project Muse, Journal of the History of Ideas, p292
- Ages, Zeitgeister, national, and racial minds seem to me to have outlived their usefulness, if they ever had any…
- 1974: Dennis MacCort, Perspective on Music in German Fiction: The Music-fiction of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, p127
- In its largest dimension the dual theme of the novella is an historical antithesis: two ages, two Zeitgeister stand tensely opposed to each other in the painful period of transition.
- 1977: Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the Nineteen Thirties: An Informal Social History of the United States 1929–1941, p369
- The moral to this anomaly may be that Zeitgeister are unreliable because afflicted with tunnel vision.
- 1996: Leslie J. Francis & Susan H. Jones, Psychological Perspectives on Christian Ministry: A Reader, p58
- There is also a sense in which particular Zeitgeister may have an impact upon facets of the results that are gleaned from an empirical study.
- 1940: Project Muse, Journal of the History of Ideas, p292
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:zeitgeister.
Related terms
- poltergeister