different between vibe vs zeitgeist

English

Etymology

Apocope of vibration, vibrator, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

vibe (plural vibes)

1. (colloquial) A vibraphone. [earlier 20th c.]
2. (colloquial) Vibration. [later 20th c.]
3. (colloquial) A vibrator (sex toy). [later 20th c.]
4. (colloquial, originally New Age jargon) An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing. [circa 1960s]

   The couple canceled their night out when they got a bad vibe from the new babysitter.

   • 2014 Simmons, Pat (July 7, 2014) Guilty of Love, Generation Quest Press

     “I like her. I get good vibes from her.”

   • 2016 de la Peña, Matt (May 24, 2016) The Hunted, Ember, ?ISBN, page 150

     “This place is giving me bad vibes.”

Translations

Verb

vibe (third-person singular simple present vibes, present participle vibing, simple past and past participle vibed)

1. (colloquial) To stimulate with a vibrator.
   • 2015, Allison Moon, Girl Sex 101, page 49:

     If your usual routine is hammering or vibing your clit for three minutes before you run out the door, try giving yourself five minutes of exploratory time.

2. (colloquial) To relax and enjoy oneself.
3. (colloquial) To agree.
4. (colloquial) To get along; to hit it off.

Derived terms

• vibe out

Anagrams

• bive

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vibe, apocope of vibration.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ib/
• Rhymes: -ib

Noun

vibe f (plural vibes)

1. vibe

Synonyms

• sensation

English

Alternative forms

• Zeitgeist

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeitgeist (literally “time-spirit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tsa?t?a?st/, /?za?t?a?st/

Noun

zeitgeist (plural zeitgeists or zeitgeister or zeitgeisten)

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

   Synonyms: spiritus mundi, temper of the times, tenor of the times

   • 1996, Michael Vanden Heuvel, Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group ?ISBN

     After quickly summarizing the zeitgeisten of the Greek, Elizabethan, and early modern periods and their effects on the theatre, Rice turns to the contemporary world.

Usage notes

• The German term, Zeitgeist, is commonly not pluralized. Geist (“ghost, spirit”) however has the plural Geister.

Derived terms

• zeitgeisty

See also

• sign of the times

Translations

Further reading

• zeitgeist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Alternative forms

• Zeitgeist

Etymology

From German Zeitgeist.

Noun

zeitgeist c (singular definite zeitgeisten, not used in plural form)

1. zeitgeist
   • 2013, Lars Holger Holm, Kenneth Maximilian Geneser, Gotisk ?ISBN, page 140

     De bliver dermed til et fænomen i tiden, til tidsbilleder, som kan tydes og bruges i en afsøgning af zeitgeisten.

     They thus become a phenomenon of the time, time-images, that may be deciphered and used in an investigation of the zeitgeist.

   • 2010, Henrik List, Sidste nat i kødbyen, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     Og hvem ville så bryde sig om at være lyseslukker til zeitgeistens swingerfest? Hvem ville så sige nej tak til en plads i VIP-afdelingen til den store, subkulturelle love-in?

     And who would then like to be a party-pooper at the swinger's party of the zeitgeist? Who would then refuse a spot in the VIP section at the big, subcultural love-in?

Declension

Synonyms

• tidsånd

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeitgeist.

Noun

zeitgeist m (plural zeitgeists)

1. (sociology) zeitgeist (the dominant set of ideals and beliefs of an era)