eidetic

From German eidetisch, from Ancient Greek εἰδητικός (eidētikós), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”).

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈdɛtɪk/

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eidetic (comparative more eidetic, superlative most eidetic)

1. (neuroscience) Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.

   an eidetic memory

   • 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 276:

     ‘Funny that I should remember it? I have an eidetic memory for numbers, can't help

   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     Eidetic images are pictures in the head. They are internal images that have the full force of conventional vision, but which are retained solely in the mind of the eidetiker.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 127:

     Les Assassins’ M. Fortier and M. Broullime and some others of his comrades-on-wheels believed Remy Marathe to be eidetic, near-perfect in recall and detail.

• eidetics
• eidetiker
• semieidetic

• photographic memory

• “eidetic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• eidetic memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• eidetic phenomenology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French eidétique.

eidetic m or n (feminine singular eidetică, masculine plural eidetici, feminine and neuter plural eidetice)

1. eidetic