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eidetic
adjective
of, relating to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail.
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Eidetic 鈥減ertaining to visual images vividly experienced and readily reproducible鈥� is a technical term used in psychology. It comes via German eidetisch from the equally technical Greek adjective 别颈诲脓迟颈办贸蝉, whose senses include 鈥渃onstituting an image; (of a number) capable of being represented by a mathematical figure; formal (cause).鈥� 贰颈诲脓迟颈办贸蝉 is a derivative of 别铆诲脓蝉颈蝉, one of the several Greek nouns meaning 鈥渒nowledge.鈥� Eidetic entered English in the first half of the 20th century.
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His eidetic memory went to work, conjuring an image of a large-scale map he had once studied. Closing his eyes he laid off the exact distance, latitude and longitude, individual islands.
Dr. Matsuzawa said the ability reminded him of the phenomenon called eidetic imagery, in which a person memorizes details of a complex scene at a glance.
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Amity 鈥渇riendship; peaceful harmony; peaceful harmony between states鈥� comes via Middle English amite, amitie, amiste from Old French 补尘颈蝉迟颈茅, 补尘颈蝉迟茅, amistet 鈥渇riendship, affection,鈥� from the unrecorded Vulgar Latin noun 补尘墨肠颈迟腻迟-, the inflectional stem of 补尘墨肠颈迟腻蝉, equivalent to Latin 补尘墨肠颈迟颈补 鈥渇riendship.鈥� (The same Vulgar Latin noun becomes amistad in Spanish, which may be familiar to Americans from the Steven Spielberg movie Amistad, 1997.) 础尘墨肠颈迟颈补 is a derivative of the noun 补尘墨肠耻蝉 鈥渇riend, lover,鈥� which in its turn is a derivative of the verb 补尘腻谤别 鈥渢o love, be in love, fall in love with,鈥� which has no further etymology. Amity entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
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Felix held out his hand as a token of amity, which the other took.
She did not care for. Mrs. Markey … but John and Joe Markey were congenial and went in together on the commuting train every morning, so the two women kept up an elaborate pretence of warm amity.
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蹿补颈苍茅补苍迟
adjective
idle; indolent.
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The English adjective and noun 蹿补颈苍茅补苍迟 鈥渋ndolent, idle; an idler, a do-nothing鈥� is plainly French. The earlier French spelling fait-nient, literally meaning 鈥渉e does nothing,鈥� is a folk etymology of Old French faignant 鈥渋dler, sluggard,鈥� the present participle of faindre, feindre 鈥渢o shirk,鈥� source of English faint and feign. 贵补颈苍茅补苍迟 entered English in the first half of the 17th century.
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He became a very 蹿补颈苍茅补苍迟 Pope, occupying his leisure hours, not discreditably, with literature and learned men, but making of those hours a far larger portion of his life than was consistent with the duty of a supreme head of the Church.
The evidence which he presents in such detail continues to produce, if anything, precisely that impression of the faineant President which he has been anxious to dispel.
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