eidos

n. (Anthropology) distinctive formal content and expression of a culture or a social group

Eidos is a Greek word meaning "image", "form", or "shape". The term became significant in Greek philosophy when Plato used it to refer to the ideal Forms or Ideas in his Theory of Forms.
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Noun
1. (anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
(hypernym) attribute
(classification) anthropology

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