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Echolalia

nounid 49938·updated May 18, 2026
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(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)

polysemous

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Variants

plural
Echolalias
possessive
Echolalia's
pluralpossessive
Echolalias'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
§2
an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others

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