18 December 2014

eidetic

[ahy-det-ik]

adjective
1. of, relating to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail.
2. of or relating to eidos.

Origin

Greek

1920-1925; < Greek eidētikós, equivalent to eîd (os) eidos + -ētikos -etic

Related forms
noneidetic, adjective

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Examples from the web for eidetic
– eidetic images differ from other forms of visual imagery in several important ways.
– His tales were produced with a combination of will, eidetic memory and emotional immaturity.
– Sensory information storage is also known as sensory register, sensory store, and eidetic and echoic memory.

Anagram

iced tie

Today’s aphorism

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever – it struck a nerve.

– Robert Redford

On this day

18 December 1942 – U.S. B24 Liberator bomber crashes into Mt Straloch on Hinchinbrook Island, North Queensland. All 29 persons on board were killed. Because of the rugged terrain and monsoonal ‘wet’ season, the bodies were not recovered for some months. The plane had flown from Amberley air base, near Brisbane, to Garbutt air base in Townsville to pick up passengers. The plane crashed during a violent storm, shortly after departure from Garbutt. It was on its way to Iron Range air base, near Lockhardt River, North Queensland.