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comparative more eidetic, superlative most eidetic
(neuroscience) Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images. quotations examples
‘Funny that I should remember it? I have an eidetic memory for numbers, can't help
1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 276
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.
1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun
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.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 127