Antonyms for eidolon

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ahy-doh-luh n

Phonetic Transcription : aɪˈdoʊ lən

Definition of eidolon

Origin : 1828, from Greek eidolon (see idol).

As in phantom : noun ghost; figment of the imagination
As in spirit : noun ghost
As in phantasm : noun illusion
As in bogey : noun ghost
As in bogeyman : noun ghost
As in bogle : noun ghost
As in phantasma : noun ghost
As in visitant : noun ghost
As in delusion : noun misconception, misbelief
As in ghost : noun spirit of the dead
As in idol : noun person greatly admired

Example sentences :

Accounts say that it was her double, or eidolon, which figured at Troy.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 400, February, 1849 » by Various

Alas, yes, the Eidolon of him was,—in Weber's and other such brains.
Extract from : « The French Revolution » by Thomas Carlyle

For the time his thought was quit of its consequence; no eidolon outwardly repeated his inward vision.
Extract from : « Between The Dark And The Daylight » by William Dean Howells

And there were other friends of the eidolon in England and inaccessible, whose letters of welcome awaited me at Gravesend.
Extract from : « The Retrospect » by Ada Cambridge

In the background of all we fancy a hideous Eidolon, from whose side even the damned recoil in loathing.
Extract from : « Guy Livingstone; » by George A. Lawrence

Whichever way she turned the eidolon of Caroline met her as a bar to all further progress in her design upon the Intendant.
Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby

The Homeric solution is to divide the man, or to double him, into his shade (eidolon) and his self.
Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider

But if any one likes let us leave him a mere Eidolon, an earlier "Great Unknown."
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 » by George Saintsbury

The house exists still, or the shell of it—the ghost of old Wenderholme, its appearance, its eidolon!
Extract from : « Wenderholme » by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I could thus see myself, gazing through my dream eyes on my eidolon, as if it were only a reflection in a mirror.
Extract from : « She and I, Volume 2 » by John Conroy Hutcheson

Synonyms for eidolon

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