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Echolalia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Psychiatry The immediate and involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others, often a symptom of autism or some types of schizophrenia.

n. An infant's repetition of the sounds made by others, a normal occurrence in childhood development.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.

n. An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In pathology, the repetition by the patient in a meaningless way of words and phrases addressed to him. It occurs in certain nervous disorders.

n. An agreeable but meaning-loss arrangement of words in poetry.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others

n. (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)

Word Usage

"They may echo the last few words of someone else's sentence, a condition known as echolalia, or they may not talk at all."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

echo repeating repetition