spiritus mundi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The spirit, outlook, point of view, or social and cultural values characteristic of an era of human history.
Example Sentences
- ". . . a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."
- "Judson House was bohemian in the broadest sense of that term: a working or living space through much of the 20th century for people alienated from middle-class values, artistic, political, and spiritual. . . . "More than a building, it's the spiritus mundi," says senior minister Peter Laarman."
- "L.A. was a magnet for lives in desperate duress. . . . The place itself provided solace and recompense. They had the comfort of other arriviste losers. They entered the L.A. spiritus mundi."
- "A mind laughing, running, darting, planning, crunching letters and words one after the other, was something for which the spiritus mundi of this lost eon was not yet ready."