• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 天前

      I’m so happy you looked it up. Now I can see how it’s spelled. Also, I’m pretty sure I was mispronouncing it.

      Nope, after googling, I think I had invented a word that didn’t exist. I thought it was didetic.

    • Electricblush@lemmy.world
      58·
      4 天前

      I checked the comments just to make sure someone mentioned eidetic memory.

      The “um achually” approach is to point out that “eidetic” is actually the correct term and that “photographic” is a colloquialism.

      • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
        20·
        4 天前

        Let me offer you the real “um achtually”: books were a thing. A literary memory would be a colloquial equivalence to photographic.

    • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
      23·
      4 天前

      First recorded in 1920–25; from Greek eidētikós, equivalent to eîd(os) eidos + -ētikos -etic

      — Dictionary.com

      So this word is actually younger than the camera it seems like.

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
      10·
      4 天前

      I can never remember that word. Sure makes it awkward in conversation: “I have one of idiomatic memories or whatever, can’t remember what it’s called.”