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Eidetic vs Noneidetic - What's the difference?

eidetic | noneidetic |

As adjectives the difference between eidetic and noneidetic

is that eidetic is pertaining to a memory or mental image of perfect clarity, as though actually visible; or to a person able to see such memories while noneidetic is not eidetic.

eidetic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a memory or mental image of perfect clarity, as though actually visible; or to a person able to see such memories.
  • * 1979 , Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol , Penguin 2001, p. 276:
    • ‘Funny that I should remember it? I have an eidetic memory for numbers, can't help it.
  • * 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.

    See also

    * eidetic

    noneidetic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not eidetic.