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.
- get (or lay)one's hands on
- get (or pull) one's finger out
- get (or put) someone's back up
- get (or receive) one's just deserts
- get (or sink) one's teeth into
- get (or start) off on the right (or wrong) foot
- get (or stick) the knife into (or in) someone
- get (or take) a rise out of
- get (or take or have) the bit between (or in) one's teeth
- get (or take or have) the measure of
- get out
- get out of
- get out of bed on the wrong side (or get up on the wrong side of the bed)
- (get) out of my sight!
- get out of someone's face
- get outside of
- get over
- get over oneself
- get physical
- get real!
- get religion
- get-rich-quick
- get rid of
- get rooted
- get round (or around)