different between eidolon vs eikon

English

Alternative forms

• eidôlon
• idolon

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (eíd?lon, “figure, representation”), from ????? (eîdos, “sight”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”). Doublet of idol and idolum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a??d??l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a??do?l?n/

Noun

eidolon (plural eidola or eidolons)

1. An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 21:

     It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 697:

     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.

2. A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Was Philippe d'Orleans seen, this day, 'in the Bois de Boulogne, in grey surtout;' waiting under the wet sere foliage, what the day might bring forth? Alas, yes, the Eidolon of him was,—in Weber's and other such brains.

Translations

English

Noun

eikon (plural eikons or eikones)

1. Alternative spelling of icon (“religious image”)

Anagrams

• Koine, enoki, koine, koiné