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View synonyms for eidolon
eidolon
[ ahy-doh-luhn ]
noun
, plural ei·do·la [ahy-, doh, -l, uh], ei·do·lons.
- a phantom; apparition.
- an ideal.
eidolon
/ aɪˈdəʊlɒn /
noun
- an unsubstantial image; apparition; phantom
- an ideal or idealized figure
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Word History and Origins
Origin of eidolon1
C19: from Greek: phantom, idol
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Example Sentences
In the background of all we fancy a hideous Eidolon, from whose side even the damned recoil in loathing.
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Whichever way she turned the eidolon of Caroline met her as a bar to all further progress in her design upon the Intendant.
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I could thus see myself, gazing through my dream eyes on my eidolon, as if it were only a reflection in a mirror.
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The Homeric solution is to divide the man, or to double him, into his shade (eidolon) and his self.
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But if any one likes let us leave him a mere Eidolon, an earlier "Great Unknown."
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