{i} (German) "spirit of the age", spirit of a specific period of history, cultural and intellectual characteristics or mood of a particular era; trend of a specific generation
trend of thought and feeling in a period of history, such as individual freedom, social responsibility, and love as an ideal-the spirit of a time
Zeitgeist is a German word Zeit meaning "time" and Geist meaning "ghost," Zeitgeist means the spirit of the age or times The trend of thought and counter-thought specific to a certain temporo-spatial environs
literally, spirit of the times, the outlook or general feeling characteristic of the art creations of a time or cultural period
\TSYT-gyst; ZYT-gyst\, noun: (Often capitalized) The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time
The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time
The zeitgeist of a particular place during a particular period in history is the attitudes and ideas that are generally common there at that time, especially the attitudes and ideas shown in literature, philosophy, and politics. He has caught the zeitgeist of rural life in the 1980s very well indeed. the general spirit or feeling of a period in history, as shown by people's ideas and beliefs at the time