German for ‘spirit of the time’. The prevalent beliefs and attitudes of a place / country at any particular period.

1848, from German Zeitgeist (Herder, 1769), "spirit of the age," literally "time-spirit," from Zeit "time" (see tide (n.)) + Geist "spirit" (see ghost (n.)). Ca [..]

The preferences, fashions, and trends that characterize the intangible essence of a specific historical period.

n. The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.

noun. the spirit of the times . It refers to a form of supraindividual mind at work in the world and developed in the cultural world view which pervades the ideas, outlooks, and emotions of a specific [..]

The spirit of the time; the general intellectual state and outlook of an era or generation.

Zeitgeist means spirit of the time. It is the dominant perspective or ideology of a time. In the early days of psychology the "zeitgeist" was Structuralism, and then Functionalism, and so on [..]

The spirit of the age (i.e. the prevailing ideology, or hegemonic discourse).

spirit of the age

(n) the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation

Adopted from German, meaning "spirit"; the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. The zeitgeist of the early modern period may have been faith in salvation thro [..]