As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
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Eidolon
//aɪˈdoʊlən//
Synonyms for "eidolon" (120 found)
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make believemake-believemanesmannermasanmaterializationmythoniphantasmphantasmaphantasmagoriaphantomphasephasispoltergeistpresencereferenceregardrespectrevenant
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romanceseemingsemblanceshadeshadowshapeshrouded spiritsick fancysidesimulacrumslantspecterspectral ghostspectrumspiritspookspritestretch of the imaginationstyletheophanythick-coming fanciestotal effecttriptwistumbraunsubstantialityvaporviewviewpointvisionwaking dreamwalking dead manwandering soulwhimwhimsywildest dreamwildest dreamswisewraithzombie
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Ancient Greek
1 entries- εἴδωλον noun (a representation of an ideal form)
Bulgarian
3 entries- идеализиран образ noun (a representation of an ideal form)
- привидение noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
- призрак noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
French
1 entries- éidolon noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
Greek
2 entries- είδωλο noun (a representation of an ideal form)
- είδωλο noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
Portuguese
1 entries- ídolo noun (a representation of an ideal form)
Russian
3 entries- при́зрак noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
- привиде́ние noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
- э́йдолон noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
Spanish
2 entries- aparición noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
- fantasma noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
Turkish
1 entries- hayalet noun (a ghost or elusive entity)
Sample sentences
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It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
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[…]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.
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In all my years of adventuring among the primitives and wild men of the world, I have never set eyes on a man who looked so savage, so elemental, so full of primal rage as the being that now climbed from the coffin; naked, sword in hand, its long black hair flowing behind it, its body covered head to toe in tattooes of eldritch imagery and ancient languages that resembled no script written by man. Sherman, the American general, is said to have told his enemies, begging for mercy, that they may as well appeal against the thunderstorm. What I beheld before me, I thought, was the very eidolon of the storm.
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