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Definition of eidos in English: eidosnoun ˈʌɪdɒsˈīdäs mass nounAnthropology The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group. Example sentencesExamples - Bateson asserts that a culture's eidos fosters certain ideas and beliefs in individual members of the culture and sanctions or suppresses others.
- He finds the eidos of the Iatmul people to be characterized among other things by a tendency to construct an enormously complex cultural-structure.
Origin 1930s: from Greek, literally 'form, type, idea', partly in contrast to ethos. Definition of eidos in US English: eidosnounˈīdäs Anthropology The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group. Example sentencesExamples - Bateson asserts that a culture's eidos fosters certain ideas and beliefs in individual members of the culture and sanctions or suppresses others.
- He finds the eidos of the Iatmul people to be characterized among other things by a tendency to construct an enormously complex cultural-structure.
Origin 1930s: from Greek, literally ‘form, type, idea’, partly in contrast to ethos. |