(Ge), the spirit of the age.

The general intellectual and cultural climate of taste characteristic of an era.

the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation

German for the spirit of the times. The times seem to be ripe for a particular invention, as evidenced by the fact that inventions are often invented simultaneously by two or more people.

literally, spirit of the times, the outlook or general feeling characteristic of the art creations of a time or cultural period.

the German word meaning literally: time ghost, or "spirit of the times". It refers to the totality of experience of a time or age; e.g. the Romantic era was characterized by a 'zeitgeist' of man vs nature, the emergence of and solitary 'existential hero,' freedom in the arts and expression etc.

Zeitgeist is originally a German expression that means "the spirit (Geist) of the time (Zeit)". It denotes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. The German pronunciation of the word is (IPA).