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A.Word.A.Day--eidetic eidetic (eye-DET-ik) adjective Marked by extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall. [From German eidetisch, from Greek eidetikos, from eidos (form), ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see) that is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise, and wit.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "He (Jorge Semprun) really does know hundreds of poems, he says. When he was young, he had a near eidetic memory, 'but these days my memory is more selective.'" Helen Kaye; Memory and Commitment; Jerusalem Post (Israel); Apr 3, 1997. "The mother is desperate and the child, as it happens, has an eidetic memory and detailed information about the villain's illicit businesses." Don D'Ammassa; The Mocking Program; Science Fiction Chronicle (Radford, Virginia); Jul 1, 2002. This week's theme: miscellaneous words. X-Bonus If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

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