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Noun: zeitgeist
  1. The spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
    "The protest movements of the 1960s captured the zeitgeist of that turbulent decade";
    - Zeitgeist

Type of: feel, feeling, flavor [US], flavour [Brit, Cdn], look, smell, spirit, tone

Encyclopedia: Zeitgeist, the Movie