TERAPHIM Synonyms

• a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body

• a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers

• excessive or irrational devotion to some activity

• (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

• a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

• a material effigy that is worshipped

• someone who is adored blindly and excessively

• an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

• an iconic mental representation

• (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

• a standard or typical example

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

• someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

• (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined

• the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public

• a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

• render visible, as by means of MRI

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• a sculpture representing a human or animal