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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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I've always used it as photographic memory.
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The first definition is from the Oxford Dictionary of English, the second from the Online Medical Dictionary.
The difference between the two suggests there might be a technical usage and a pedestrian usage. Such as, "For Pisser Burke the skirl of bagpipes evoked an eidetic mental picture of the Lowlands", or "Subject A suffered from diminished eidetic memory retention"
It says the word was coined. It would be helpful to know who coined it and why.
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It says the word was coined. It would be helpful to know who coined it and why.
A quick google reveals nothing much about the coining. Wordorigins would be a better place to ask this question.
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