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eidétique

French, adjective\ɛj.de.tik\

eidétique is a French adjective meaning “eidetic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à l’essence des choses”.

What does eidétique mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    eidetic

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Variante de eidétique.

adjective: 1. Relatif à l’essence des choses. 2. Qui a la faculté de se souvenir d’images, de sons, ou d’objets dans leurs moindres détails sensoriels.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of eidétique

  • eidétiques plural
  • éidétiques plural masculine feminine
  • éidétique

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce eidétique?

  • \ɛj.de.tik\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to eidétique

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is eidétique in French?

eidétique appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).