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ECHOLALIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("echolalia" is a kind of...):
repeating; repetition (the act of doing or performing again)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("echolalia" is a kind of...):
echo (a reply that repeats what has just been said)
