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n. - (anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group.

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Usage examples (18)
  • At times Plato substitutes the word eidos for “idea.”
  • And, of course, one immediately notices the similarity with the Platonic eidos, idea.
  • I fancy there is an essence, an eidos of the lyric, whence “each variation comes.”
  • For the relatively infrequent use of idea, I decided merely to transliterate the Greek and reserved "form" for eidos.
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