edetic
English
[edit]Etymology
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Adjective
[edit]edetic (comparative more edetic, superlative most edetic)
- Pertaining to mythology and symbolism.
- 1976, Randolph O. Yeager, The Renaissance New Testament: Matthew 1-7, page 82:
- Thus we have the geographic interpretation of hisotry by Huntington, Haushofer, Mahan, Spykman, Turner and their disciples, the economic interpretation by Marx and his disciples, the racial explanations of Hegel and Hitler, the morphology of Spengler and the edetic views of Arnold Toynbee.
- 1995, Janata - Volume 50, Issues 19-31:
- He was edetic in his approach to ideologies and therefore, he could not be fixed to any particular mould or stereotype.
- 2002, Gilbert I. Bond, Community, Communitas, and Cosmos:
- […] cosmos are edetic reductions and not intended to correspond with theologically triune understandings of deity.
- Alternative spelling of eidetic
- 1964, Richard Ralph Straub, A View of the Levels of Perceptual Development in Autistic Syndromes, page 37:
- Their high level of form-perception and retentive memories are based on recognition, resensation and edetic imagery.
- 1972, David Norbert Campbell, A Critical Analysis of William Heard Kilpatrick's The Montessori System Examined, page 83:
- A child with edetic imagery is able to project on a plain surface what has just been viewed and reproduce in minute detail what has been seen,
- 2014, Lydia Scholten Ott, Gentlemen Of A Certain Age, page 46:
- It was there that I found out I had an edetic memory because I could recall every lecture just about verbatim.
- 2015, Mike Muri, Skeletons in the Trunk, page 13:
- Sometimes this Edetic/Photographic Memory can be a curse, he cachinnated into the whatever the fuck kind of wooden door it was just as the door flew open from the inside.