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eidolon🔊

An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.

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As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
[…] Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon, inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.

A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.

An unsubstantial image, spectre, phantom.

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