Literally ‘spirit of the time’ (German). The dominant ideas of a particular period—e.g. the 1920s or the 1980s—reflected in politics, philosophy, literature, art and architecture, even education and the...

Zeitgeist (pronounced [ˈtsa͡ɪtga͡ɪst] (help·info)) is originally a German expression that means "the spirit of the age", literally translated as "time (Zeit) spirit (Geist)". It describes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. In...