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Eidolon vs Eikon - What's the difference?

eidolon | eikon |

As nouns the difference between eidolon and eikon

is that eidolon is an 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 while eikon is an alternative spelling of lang=en religious image, lang=en.

eidolon

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Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1936 , (Henry Miller), Black Spring :
    • As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
  • *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.
  • A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.

    • eikon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1920 , :
    • Not like the eikons of other gods were those of Zo-Kalar and Tamash and Lobon. For so close to life were they that one might swear the graceful bearded gods themselves sate on the ivory thrones.

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