Definition of "geist" [geist]

• Ghost, apparition. (noun)
• Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc). (noun)

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• "I've come across the same thing as Addison, that ghost is misconstrued as spectre or phantasm, rather than spirit (interestingly, they're the same word in German, geist, from which I imagine we get the wording)."
• "The average virtuoso thinks far more of his "geist," his "talent" (or as Emerson would have it, "the shadow of the soul -- the otherwise") than he does of his technic, or his cadenzas."
• "Also, and even more importantly, that particular 'culture areas' of the world are dominated by their own peculiar 'geist' or"