The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromεἴδωλον“figure, representation”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀν-“non-”
- English todayanidolic
Coined around 1990 (see first quotation), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “non-”) + Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “figure, representation”) + -ic.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀν- all →
anaerobicanalgesicanhedoniaanergyanuranan-anacrogynousanapsid
Ancient Greekεἴδωλον all →
idoleidoloneidolismeidoloscopeidolomancy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.