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EIDOS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eidos mean?
• EIDOS (noun)
The noun EIDOS has 1 sense:
1. (anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
Familiarity information: EIDOS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("eidos" is a kind of...):
attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Domain category:
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)
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