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semi-eidetic

semi-eidetic adjective: partly or partially eidetic.

Adjective

semi-eidetic (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Partly or partially eidetic.
    • Subject Q: Little, if any, inner speech. He is, according to his own statement, predominantly visual. Says he gets things by memorizing how they look in the book. Said he had difficulty getting the reading given to him because he could not read it over once or twice more." After that I would...1927, Clarence Whitford Young, A Study of the Function of Inner Speech in Reading and Thought, page 77
    • A friend with a semi-eidetic memory remembers seeing an article in Neural Computation about the role of noise in neural function but doesn't remember the title or authors. The journal doesn't seem to be listed in Current Contents and I can't find anything about it on CARL.1994 May 11, John Edstrom, “looking for a reference”, in comp.ai.neural-nets (Usenet)

Examples of semi-eidetic in a sentence

  • Said he had difficulty getting the reading given to him because he could not read it over once or twice more." After that I would remember just how it looks." Is apparently semi-eidetic.1927, Clarence Whitford Young, A Study of the Function of Inner Speech in Reading and Thought, page 77:
  • Are you calling that 'semi-eidetic memory'?"2018, Daron Malmborg, The Plan for Darkness, page 203:

Origin of semi-eidetic

From semi- + eidetic.

Questions about semi-eidetic

What does semi-eidetic mean?
Semi-eidetic means partly or partially eidetic.
How do you use semi-eidetic in a sentence?
Said he had difficulty getting the reading given to him because he could not read it over once or twice more." After that I would remember just how it looks." Is apparently semi-eidetic.
What part of speech is semi-eidetic?
Semi-eidetic is an adjective.

Words near semi-eidetic in the dictionary

  1. semi-dreadnoughts
  2. semi-easy chair
  3. semi-easy chairs
  4. semi-effigies
  5. semi-effigy
  6. semi-eidetic
  7. semi-elasticities
  8. semi-elasticity
  9. semi-eligible
  10. semi-elliptic
  11. semi-elliptical

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