The condition of having had some special unique interest or proclivity, and then discovering that it has just been featured in media or elsewhere; the ensuing realization that in fact your interest was not unique, but in fact others just like you were pursuing it as well; the revelation that the interest you thought was unique was merely a reflection of the spirit of the time.
"Did you hear that Garrett got zeitgeisted again? He just launched that blog about vintage (somethings) a month ago, and there was a pictorial about the exact same thing in the new Wired Magazine!"
"Poor guy."
"Poor guy."
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"that is totally Zeitgeist"
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(Adj/adv): in zeitgeist, i.e. in its proper socio-cultural/historical/geopolitical/ geo-military context
Zeitgeistically speaking, the word "idiot" had a radically different meaning from the one it has today, all you have to do is figure out what it meant in the days of Alexander the Great
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