eidetic

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɪˈdɛtɪk/
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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.

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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
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