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Zeitgeist
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Zeitgeist
[tsīt′gīst]
Etymology: Ger
literally, the spirit of the time, a climate of opinion, a convention of thought, or implicit assumptions.


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And Chuck Palahniuk in, say, Fight Club, catches the zeitgest against IKEA conformity and the J Crewification of the nineties.
Why Do Young Male Writers Love Icky, Tough Guy Deadbeats? by Leon Neyfakh / The New York Observer
More than any other producer since John Lloyd (the producer of Not the Nine O'Clock News and Blackadder), Harry had his finger on the pulse of comedy; he was really plugged into, if you'll excuse the word, the zeitgest of comedy.
Harry Thompson by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
This suggestion is in fact one of historical timeliness, or Zeitgest, if readers prefer, since Zora Neale Hurston could have counted as a contemporary the Russian philosopher of language M.
Reading Hurston writing by Laudun, John / African American Review
 
 
 
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