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Geist (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy. Geist can be roughly translated into three English meanings: ghost (as in the supernatural entity), spirit (as in the Holy Spirit), and mind or intellect .
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist [1] (German pronunciation: [ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst] ⓘ; lit. ' spirit of the age '; capitalized in German) is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history. [2]
Geist (German for 'spirit') is a distilled beverage obtained by maceration of unfermented fruit or other raw materials in neutral spirits, followed by distillation. [1] This differs from fruit brandy , where the alcohol comes from fermenting the fruit's naturally occurring sugars.
The Phenomenology of Spirit (German: Phänomenologie des Geistes) is the most widely discussed philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; its German title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind. Hegel described the work, published in 1807, as an "exposition of the coming to be of knowledge ...
The concept of Geist dates back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German idealism, in particular to Herder's and Hegel's concept of a Volksgeist, the alleged common "spirit", or rather, mind, of a people.
'Morning Joe' and 'Today' personality Willie Geist recently responded to speculation that he could fill Matt Lauer's empty seat on the 'Today' show.
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The word poltergeist comes from the German language words poltern ' to make sound, to rumble ' and Geist ' ghost, spirit ' and the term itself translates as ' noisy ghost ', ' rumble-ghost ' or a ' loud spirit '. A synonym coined by René Sudre is thorybism, from the Ancient Greek θορυβείν (thorubeín) ' to make noise or uproar, to ...