Definition of "eidos" [eidos]

• (anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "But what is seen is a shape or form, and Plato's pupil, Aristotle, preferred the term eidos, probably because he could not accept his master's theory of ideas."
• "At times Plato substitutes the word eidos for “idea.”"
• "Even if we turn from a Latin derivative to Greek - an intellectual if desperate act in itself - we end up back whence we fled, with "eidos": "The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group.""