eidetic

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

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈdɛtɪk/

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

• eidetics
• eidetiker

• photographic memory

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