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Open the tool →隔世之感 (gé shì zhī gǎn) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a feeling of profound change, as if separated by a generation or an era; a sense of vast transformation”.
隔世之感 is pronounced gé shì zhī gǎn in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 隔世之感 means “a feeling of a separated era/generation”. It is used to mean “a feeling of profound change, as if separated by a generation or an era; a sense of vast transformation”.
世:古代以三十年为一世。指因人事或景物变化大而引起的、象隔了一个时代似的感觉。