echolalia
pronunciation
How to pronounce echolalia in British English:
UK [ˌekəʊ'leɪlɪə]
How to pronounce echolalia in American English:
US [ˌekoʊ'leɪlɪr]
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- Noun:
- an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
- (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
Word Origin
- echolalia (n.)
- "meaningless repetition of words and phrases," 1876, from German (von Romberg, 1865), from Greek ekho (see echo (n.)) + lalia "talk, prattle, a speaking," from lalein "to speak, prattle," of echoic origin.
Example
- 1. Delayed echolalia : repeating something heard at an earlier time .
- 2. Echolalia : speech consisting of literally repeating something heard .