eidolon

Examples

• All

• The Eidolon's first-person internal narration instead correlates with the impression of a criminal who was made: it is his traumatic childhood experience that is to blame for the abuse he currently carries out.

  Academic text (2003)

• In fact, the term eidolon is historically intermingled with spectral narratives.

  Academic text (2017)

• The second criminal under analysis is the Eidolon, featuring in Michael Connelly's The Poet, the author's first non-series book that broke into the bestseller lists.

  Academic text (2003)

• In many ghost stories, characters often encounter an eidolon that represents their deepest fears.

• In her dreams, she often saw an eidolon of her grandmother, guiding her through life's challenges.

Synonyms

I

image

vseidolon

• Literature

445 3.3

A picture you form in your mind from words or ideas

is a ghostly or idealized presence rather than a simple mental picture

P

phantom

vseidolon

7.4

Exists only in the mind and is not really there

is a literary or ideal presence rather than a mere mental illusion

F

fantasm

vseidolon

• Archaic

9.9

A ghost that appears to people

is an idealized or imaginary presence used in literature or the mind

I

imaginary being

vseidolon

• Literature

7.3

A creature that people imagine and that is not real

is more often an idealized or ghostly presence in literary thought

E

eikon

vseidolon

• Archaic

9.9

A painted image of a holy person used in worship

is rooted in literary or mental imagination rather than religious devotion

How Ghostly

eidolon

• Literature

9.9

phantom

81 6.7

vision

848 3.8

image

∞ 1.0

figure

234 3.1

Surface Forms

Etymology