eidetic

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈdɛtɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• eidetically
• eidetic memory
• eidetic reduction
• eidetics
• eidetiker
• semi-eidetic

 

Translations

pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity

• Bulgarian: кристално ясен (kristalno jasen)
• Danish: eidetisk (da)
• Dutch: eidetisch (nl)
• Finnish: valokuva-, eideettinen (fi)
• French: eidétique (fr)
• German: eidetisch (de), fotographisch
• Hungarian: eidetikus (hu)
• Polish: ejdetyczny
• Portuguese: eidético (pt)
• Spanish: eidético (es)
• Swedish: eidetisk (sv)

See also

• photographic memory

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French eidétique.

Adjective

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

1. eidetic

Declension

Declension of eidetic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	eidetic		eidetică	eidetici	eidetice
	definite	eideticul		eidetica	eideticii	eideticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	eidetic		eidetice	eidetici	eidetice
	definite	eideticului		eideticei	eideticilor	eideticelor