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eidetic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /aɪˈdɛtɪk/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.
   • an eidetic memory
   • ‘Funny that I should remember it? I have an eidetic memory for numbers, can't help 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 276:
   • 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. 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
   • 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. 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 127:
2. Of or relating to the essential forms of a phenomena.

Forms

Deriveds

eidetiker · eidetics · noneidetic · eidetic reduction · eidetically · eidetic memory · dyseidetic · semi-eidetic

Relateds

photographic memory

Translations (13)

pt eidético (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · pl ejdetyczny (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · bg кристално ясен (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · fr eidétique (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · de eidetisch (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · de fotographisch (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · es eidético (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · fi eideettinen (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · hu eidetikus (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · fi valokuva- (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · sv eidetisk (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · da eidetisk (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity) · nl eidetisch (pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity)