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Zeitgeist vs Zeitgeisty - What's the difference?

zeitgeist | zeitgeisty |

As a noun zeitgeist

is the spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.

As an adjective zeitgeisty is

(informal) conforming to the zeitgeist, contemporary, trendy, modern.

zeitgeisty

English

Adjective

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  • (informal) Conforming to the zeitgeist, contemporary, trendy, modern
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  • , year=2001 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dr. Peter Knight , title=Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to 'The X-Files , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Routledge , isbn=9780415189781 , page=183 , passage=Behind this zeitgeisty observation, however, lies the more convincing … }}
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  • , year=2008 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author= , title=2009 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market , chapter= citation , genre=Language and Arts , publisher=F+W Media , isbn=9781582975436 , page= , passage=This is the major problem of the new project that I am working on — it is so zeitgeisty that each day that passes that it is not yet fully written makes it feel more and more dated. }}
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  • , year=2010 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=David Browne , title=Goodbye 20th Century , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=ReadHowYouWant , isbn=9781458778871 , page=348 , passage="Sonic Youth are always zeitgeisty ,” says Cafritz, “so it sounded really appealing at that moment. }}
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  • , year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Kim Newman , title=Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn=9781408805039 , page=173 , passage=... near future corporate wars and 'the realist underground' and was eclipsed by the zeitgeistier The Matrix (1999). }}
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  • , year=2010 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Gideon Haigh , title=The Office: A Hardworking History , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Miegunyah Press , isbn=9780522855562 , page=viii , passage=Social trendspotters nodded as that zeitgeistiest of journalists, The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, called for … }}

    Usage notes

    Some mistakenly believe that since the root is from the German Zeitgeist (English zeitgeist) that it should be capitalized. This is wrong. Zeitgeisty is an adjective and, aside from the beginning of a sentence or in a title, it should not be capitalized.

    Synonyms

    * contemporary * modern * period * trendy * up to date