Eidolon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /aɪˈdəʊlən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eidolon is a noun meaning A phantom; a ghost or an elusive entity.
Meaning
A phantom; a ghost or an elusive entity.
More Meanings
- An unsubstantial image; a spectre; a phantom.
- An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
Example Sentences
It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
[…]Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon, inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.
Was Philippe d'Orleans seen, this day, 'in the Bois de Boulogne, in grey surtout;' waiting under the wet sere foliage, what the day might bring forth? Alas, yes, the Eidolon of him was,—in Weber's and other such brains.
Word Forms
- eidola
- eidolons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include idol, godform, icon, hierophany, idoll, aspect.
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