Are there any English versions of “Zeitgeist” other than “spirit of his time”?

Is there a cut-and-dry English word that means the same, or roughly the same, as the German word “Zeitgeist”)?

I’ve grown sour on its presence in conversational English due to heavy use as a clever buzzword and would like to know if there is another alternative to

inhaling the word “save”?

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What’s more interesting is the antonym in the thesaurus answers here. Based on that, I’d go with antonyms of old school which bring up such terms as contemporary, fresh or in vogue. All of those terms, and especially the synonyms to in vogue work well.

The use of zeitgeist is pretty much in vogue today as the latest thing to discuss and to turn a phrase, “word drop”. How does my new friend who like Timegeist say?

Answered on December 21, 2021.
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What’s more interesting is the antonym in the thesaurus answers here. Based on that, I’d go with antonyms of old school which bring up such terms as contemporary, fresh or in vogue. All of those terms, and especially the synonyms to in vogue work well.

The use of zeitgeist is pretty much in vogue today as the latest thing to discuss and to turn a phrase, “word drop”. How does my new friend who like Timegeist say?

Answered on December 21, 2021.
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What’s more interesting is the antonym in the thesaurus answers here. Based on that, I’d go with antonyms of old school which bring up such terms as contemporary, fresh or in vogue. All of those terms, and especially the synonyms to in vogue work well.

The use of zeitgeist is pretty much in vogue today as the latest thing to discuss and to turn a phrase, “word drop”. How does my new friend who like Timegeist say?

Answered on December 21, 2021.
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What’s more interesting is the antonym in the thesaurus answers here. Based on that, I’d go with antonyms of old school which bring up such terms as contemporary, fresh or in vogue. All of those terms, and especially the synonyms to in vogue work well.

The use of zeitgeist is pretty much in vogue today as the latest thing to discuss and to turn a phrase, “word drop”. How does my new friend who like Timegeist say?

Answered on December 22, 2021.
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What’s more interesting is the antonym in the thesaurus answers here. Based on that, I’d go with antonyms of old school which bring up such terms as contemporary, fresh or in vogue. All of those terms, and especially the synonyms to in vogue work well.

The use of zeitgeist is pretty much in vogue today as the latest thing to discuss and to turn a phrase, “word drop”. How does my new friend who like Timegeist say?

Answered on December 22, 2021.
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What’s more interesting is the antonym in the thesaurus answers here. Based on that, I’d go with antonyms of old school which bring up such terms as contemporary, fresh or in vogue. All of those terms, and especially the synonyms to in vogue work well.

The use of zeitgeist is pretty much in vogue today as the latest thing to discuss and to turn a phrase, “word drop”. How does my new friend who like Timegeist say?

Answered on December 22, 2021.
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