单词	genius loci
释义	genius loci /ˈləʊsʌɪ / /ˈlɒkiː/ noun 1The prevailing character or atmosphere of a place.Having visited his bare-bones Tribeca studio with its funky, timbered two-story space, I've gotten a sense of the genius loci of Georges's recent art.... We can learn a ton about baseball while feeling both the spine shivers of contact with ‘holy’ items and the touch of genius loci, the magic of real and special places. The objective was to find the genius loci of a place and in Lasdun's words ‘the soul of the building’. 1.1The presiding god or spirit of a place.She supposes that, in earlier times, ‘every tree, every spring, every stream, every hill had its own genius loci, its guardian spirit’. Origin Latin, literally 'spirit of the place'.
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