eidos
/ˈʌɪdɒs
/noun [mass noun] Anthropology
The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group.He finds the eidos of the Iatmul people to be characterized among other things by a tendency to construct an enormously complex cultural-structure....
- Bateson asserts that a culture's eidos fosters certain ideas and beliefs in individual members of the culture and sanctions or suppresses others.
Origin
1930s: from Greek, literally 'form, type, idea', partly in contrast to ethos.
- well, I'm (or I'll be) buggered
- well-improved
- well in
- well-inclined
- well I never! (or well I never did!)
- well informed
- wellington
- Wellington, 1st Duke of
- Wellington apple
- wellington boot
- wellingtonia
- Wellingtonian
- well-inhabited
- wellink
- well-instituted
- well-instructed
- well-integrated
- well-intended
- well intentioned
- well-invented
- wellish
- wellish-off
- well-joined
- well-jointed
- well judged