The German word "zeitgeist" is associated with the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and refers to an era's overall intellectual, moral, and cultural environment. What is the word's literal translation in English?

Zeitgeist is a German term — "zeit" means time and "geist" means spirit. So, the "spirit of the time" refers to what is happening culturally or intellectually within a certain historical period. For example, Woodstock embodied the 1960s, therefore Woodstock was part of the 1960s "zeitgeist."

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