ethos

Noun

Meaning

(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

character value culture code quality psychology cerebellum credo mind philosophy identity atmosphere moral spirit personality
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Antonyms

body animalism mistake abortion ignorance misunderstanding
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Hypernyms

attribute

Related terms

ethology ethics ethologist nonstandard ethological ethologic

Phrases with the word

american ethos ethos of scientific inquiry

Anagrams

shote sothe those

Examples

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. Herbert Read

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. Alison Bechdel

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos. Ursula Goodenough

The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [terms of] their logical consistency and consonance with facts. Robert K. Merton

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. Richard Rogers

When I visited St Margaret's School in Loanhead ... I was struck by pride that the children took in their faith, and their identification with the ethos of the school. These children were not just learning to be good students. They were learning to be good people. Alex Salmond

Close letter words and terms

ethopoiein ethoprop ethopropazine ethos of scientific inquiry ethoscope ethosed