What word/phrase means "the feeling of the time/era"? [duplicate]

The thesaurus answer gives some terms, but what's more interesting to me is the antonym old-fashioned. Based on that, I'd go with antonyms of old-fashioned which bring up such terms as contemporary, fresh, and in vogue. All of those terms, and especially the synonyms to in vogue work well.

In somewhat of a self-referential point of view, the use of the zeitgeist is pretty much in vogue today as the latest thing to discuss and, to turn a phrase, "word drop". At least, that's what my new friends who are all into Zeitgeist like to say.

Among the suggested synonyms I think two of them may come close to the notion of 'spirit of time':

atmosphere:

• A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude: the atmosphere of the 50s.

feeling:

• an impression or mood; atmosphere: the feeling of a foreign city.