eidetic
adjective psychology specialized uk/aɪˈdet.ɪk/ us/aɪˈdet̬.ɪk/
(头脑中的印象)异常清晰的,似在眼前的
An 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. 他是一个记忆力超群的优秀学生。
Compare: photographic memory
(过去事物的清晰形象)重现的
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. 童年在我头脑里留下的所有清晰影像中,这是最生动的。
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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?