different between zeitgeister vs taxonomy

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

zeitgeister

1. plural of zeitgeist
   • 1940: Project Muse, Journal of the History of Ideas, p292

     Ages, Zeitgeister, national, and racial minds seem to me to have outlived their usefulness, if they ever had any…

   • 1974: Dennis MacCort, Perspective on Music in German Fiction: The Music-fiction of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, p127

     In its largest dimension the dual theme of the novella is an historical antithesis: two ages, two Zeitgeister stand tensely opposed to each other in the painful period of transition.

   • 1977: Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the Nineteen Thirties: An Informal Social History of the United States 1929–1941, p369

     The moral to this anomaly may be that Zeitgeister are unreliable because afflicted with tunnel vision.

   • 1996: Leslie J. Francis & Susan H. Jones, Psychological Perspectives on Christian Ministry: A Reader, p58

     There is also a sense in which particular Zeitgeister may have an impact upon facets of the results that are gleaned from an empirical study.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:zeitgeister.

Related terms

• poltergeister

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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