echolalia
English
Etymology
From echo + -lalia; Latin ēchō from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “reflected sound, echo”), and -lalia from Ancient Greek λαλιά (laliá, “talk, chat”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪliə
Noun
echolalia (countable and uncountable, plural echolalias)
- (clinical psychology) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.
- 1984, Jon Eisenson, Aphasia and related disorders in children, page 30:
- Their echolalic responses may be much more extensive than the single words or short phrases that are characteristic of normal echolalia. Thus, a pseudoverbal autistic child may respond to "Do you want a cookie, Jimmy?" with a replication of the very same words.
- An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
- Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 50:
- There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 50:
Translations
echoing of words or phrases
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References
- “echolalia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “echolalia”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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