edetic

comparative more edetic · superlative most edetic

1. Pertaining to mythology and symbolism.

   […] cosmos are edetic reductions and not intended to correspond with theologically triune understandings of deity.

   2002, Gilbert I. Bond, Community, Communitas, and Cosmos

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   Thus we have the geographic interpretation of history 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.

   1976, Randolph O. Yeager, The Renaissance New Testament: Matthew 1-7, page 82

   He was edetic in his approach to ideologies and therefore, he could not be fixed to any particular mould or stereotype.

   1995, Janata - Volume 50, Issues 19-31

2. alternativeAlternative spelling of eidetic.

   It was there that I found out I had an edetic memory because I could recall every lecture just about verbatim.

   2014, Lydia Scholten Ott, Gentlemen Of A Certain Age, page 46

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   Their high level of form-perception and retentive memories are based on recognition, resensation and edetic imagery.

   1964, Richard Ralph Straub, A View of the Levels of Perceptual Development in Autistic Syndromes, page 37

   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,

   1972, David Norbert Campbell, A Critical Analysis of William Heard Kilpatrick's The Montessori System Examined, page 83

   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.

   2015, Mike Muri, Skeletons in the Trunk, page 13