英和和英

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /aɪˈdɛtɪk/

形容詞

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.

2. (phenomenology) Of or relating to the essential forms of a phenomena.

派生語

参考

• photographic memory

参照

• “eidetic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• eidetic memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• eidetic phenomenology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia