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eidetic adjective
Psychology
relating to or denoting mental images having unusual vividness and detail, as if actually visible; noun: a person able to form or recall eidetic images.
ORIGIN 1920s: coined in German from Greek eidetikos, from eidos ‘form.’
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eidetic
1. Relating to the power of visualization of and memory for objects previously seen which reaches its height in children aged 8 to 10.
2. A person possessing this power to a high degree.
Origin: G. Eidon, saw (aorist of verb)
(05 Mar 2000)
Do you think this refers to a photographic memory or a kind of intrapsychic hallucination?
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