Eidos refers to the formal sum of a culture, its intellectual character, and ideas.
Eidos refers to the formal sum of a culture, its intellectual character, and ideas.
| Front | eidos \EYE-dos, AY-\ plural eide \EYE-dee, AY-day\ |
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| Back | noun The formal sum of a culture, its intellectual character, ideas, etc. [From Greek eidos (form, idea), ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise, wit, and eidetic. Earliest recorded use: 1936.] "Picture, if you will, honey, the eidos of repulsive: plaid upholstered chairs, with ruffled skirts, all hideously brown and yellow." - Christopher Coe; Such Times; Penguin Books; 1994. |
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