Definition

1. Noun:
   • Intellectual current / trend of thought: A prevailing or influential stream of ideas, philosophies, or ideologies characteristic of a specific historical period or era.
   • Thought movement: A collective direction or movement in thinking within a particular field, such as philosophy, literature, or politics, during a defined time.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Tư trào dân chủ lan rộng khắp châu Âu vào thế kỷ 19. (The democratic intellectual current spread throughout Europe in the 19th century.)
  • Giới nghiên cứu đang phân tích tư trào triết học mới. (Researchers are analyzing the new philosophical trend of thought.)
  • Ông ấy chịu ảnh hưởng sâu sắc từ tư trào thời Khai sáng. (He was deeply influenced by the thought movement of the Enlightenment era.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is considered somewhat archaic or academic in modern Vietnamese. It is primarily used in historical, philosophical, or sociological discourse to describe broad ideological shifts.
• It often refers to large-scale, epoch-defining systems of thought rather than short-lived fashions.

Variants and Related Words

• Trào lưu tư tưởng (n): A more common modern phrase with a very similar meaning: "current of thought" or "ideological trend."
  • Trào lưu tư tưởng hậu hiện đại. (The postmodern current of thought.)

Synonyms

• Current of thought
• Intellectual trend
• Ideological movement
• School of thought (when referring to a more defined group)

Related Concepts

• Hệ tư tưởng (n): Ideology - a more structured system of beliefs.
• Tư tưởng (n): Thought, idea, doctrine.
• Trào lưu (n): Trend, wave, movement (can be used more broadly for cultural or social trends, not exclusively intellectual).