total recall

NOUN

photographic memory

Synonyms

WEAK

eidetic imagery eidetic memory exercise of memory recollection total memory

Example Sentences

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While remarkable, RJ’s total recall doesn’t put him in the category of an autistic savant, the best-known of whom is a Hollywood creation.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2023

The total recall figure is almost equivalent to the 500,000 cars Tesla delivered last year, Reuters reports.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

Any world-class tennis player has total recall of the masterful drop shot she hit on set point, as well as the perfectly lined-up backhand she plowed into the net instead.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2018

In the first, the lead character has some sort of investigatory superpower — Carrie Wells’s total recall in “Unforgettable,” for instance.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2015

I have almost total recall, every face is there, every hill and tree and color, and sound of speech and small scenes ready to replay themselves in my memory.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck