映えい像ぞう記き憶おく

noun

eidetic memory; photographic memory

A technical term in psychology for the ability to recall images with high precision after only brief exposure. In everyday Japanese, 写真記憶 (しゃしんきおく) is sometimes used as a more colloquial synonym.

• 彼かれは映えい像ぞう記き憶おくの持もち主ぬしで、一いち度ど見みた風ふう景けいを細さい部ぶまで描かける。

  He has an eidetic memory and can draw a scene he saw only once down to the smallest detail.