eidetic - “pertaining to the faculty of projecting images,” 1924, from German eidetisch, coined by German psychologist Erich Jaensch [n.b. born 1883, died 1940], from Greek eidetikos “pertaining to images,” also “pertaining to knowledge,” from eidesis “knowledge,” from eidos “form, shape”
Eidetic memory is an older term.
eidetic - “pertaining to the faculty of projecting images,” 1924, from German eidetisch, coined by German psychologist Erich Jaensch [n.b. born 1883, died 1940], from Greek eidetikos “pertaining to images,” also “pertaining to knowledge,” from eidesis “knowledge,” from eidos “form, shape”