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eidolon

[ ahy-doh-luhn ]

noun

plural eidola eidolons.
  1. a phantom; apparition.
  2. an ideal.


eidolon

/ ²¹ÉªËˆ»åəʊ±ôÉ’²Ô /

noun

  1. an unsubstantial image; apparition; phantom
  2. an ideal or idealized figure
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of eidolon1

First recorded in 1820–30; idol
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of eidolon1

C19: from Greek: phantom, idol
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A dark wisp of smoke—Percy guessed it must be an eidolon—seeped into a Cyclops, made the monster hit himself in the face, then drifted off to possess another victim.

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Maybe he had actually been an eidolon his whole life, because this kid he’d just seen should have been the real Leo.

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Helen doesn’t ask anyone at Prime Space to explain her mission’s name, Eidolon, but if she’d checked Wikipedia, she would have learned that an eidolon is a phantom in human form.

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Still it exists, and it is there that the astral eidolons of all the beings that have lived, animals included, await their second death.

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There is no such thing as the god Apollo, and 227science makes a clean sweep of Apollo and Dionysos and all such fictitious objectivities; they are eidola, idols, phantasms, not objective realities.

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