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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

Zeitgeist

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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Zeitgeist \Zeit"geist'\, noun [G.; zeit time + geist spirit. See {Tide}, noun; {Ghost}, noun] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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