zeitgeister
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See also: Zeitgeister
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡saɪtɡaɪstɐ/, /ˈzaɪtɡaɪstə/
Noun[edit]
zeitgeister
- plural of zeitgeist
- 1940, Project Muse, Journal of the History of Ideas, page 292:
- 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, page 127:
- 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, page 369:
- 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, page 58:
- 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.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:zeitgeister.