eidetic

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈdɛtɪk/

Adjective

eidetic (comparative more eidetic, superlative most eidetic)

1. Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.
   • 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin 2001, p. 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, page 127:

     '...and some others of his comrades-on-wheels believed Remy Marathe to be eidetic, near-perfect in recall and detail.'

   an eidetic memory

Related terms

• eidetics
• eidetiker

Translations

pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity

• Bulgarian: кристално ясен (kristalno jasen)
• Danish: eidetisk (da)
• Dutch: eidetisch
• German: eidetisch (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: eidetikus
• 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