eideticadjective
/aɪˈdet.ɪk//aɪˈdet̬.ɪk/specializedAn eidetic memory is the ability to remember things in exact detail, as if you can see them in your mind:
He was a brilliant student with an eidetic memory.
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photographic memory
An eidetic image is one you see in great detail in your mind:
Of all the eidetic images that remain from my childhood, this is the most vivid.
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- He has an eidetic memory so that, if, as he's going onstage, someone tells him there's a table of firemen to his left, he can mentally flick through his files for the section of firemen jokes .
- She was filing it away in her eidetic memory to bring up at another time in the future.
- Some hackers report experiencing strong eidetic imagery when in cyberspace.
- Do you first need to form a picture of the two of us sitting in that café discussing your father- an eidetic image- before the words come to you?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Memory and memories
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- back
- clear
- corporate memory
- dim
- déjà vu
- flash
- flash back
- from memory idiom
- go
- haunting
- live
- nostalgia
- nostalgic
- off the top of your head idiom
- photographic memory
- recollection
- remembrance
- rote
- within your memory idiom
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