Formation
Morphological reading: eidolon / idol + lust.
Image, phantom and desire are compressed into a single appetite. Paired with SPECULOPHILIA, the term belongs to a larger cluster where seeing becomes erotic attachment to representations.
Source
Earliest indexed occurrence: A Kid Named Lost in Death City · 2026-05-19.
“The other side. Man. Ma’am. Sir. Sorry. EIDOLUST (SPECULOPHILIA) Watch yourself. Lip-synch your favorite songs. Photograph yourself in…”
Why it matters
The point is not merely novelty. The collision arrives before the definition does. See The JQD word-machine and the lexicon entry.