eidetic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From German eidetisch, from Ancient Greek εἰδητικός (eidētikós), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
eidetic (comparative more eidetic, superlative most eidetic)
- (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.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
pertaining to a memory of perfect clarity
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “eidetic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- eidetic memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- eidetic phenomenology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French eidétique.
Adjective[edit]
eidetic m or n (feminine singular eidetică, masculine plural eidetici, feminine and neuter plural eidetice)
Declension[edit]
Declension of eidetic
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |
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