Zeitgeist vs flavor

Zeitgeist and flavor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Zeitgeist	Yes	No	No	No
flavor	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, flavor is a hypernym of Zeitgeist; that is, flavor is a word with a broader meaning than Zeitgeist:

Zeitgeist: the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
flavor: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Other hypernyms of Zeitgeist include feel, feeling, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone.

Zeitgeist (noun)	flavor (noun)
the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation	the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
	(physics) the six kinds of quarks
	the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Zeitgeist (verb)	flavor (verb)
	lend flavor to