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repetition vs echolalia

echolalia vs repetition

repetition and echolalia both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
repetition Yes No No No
echolalia Yes No No No
As nouns, echolalia is a hyponym of repetition; that is, echolalia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than repetition:
  • repetition: the act of doing or performing again
  • echolalia: (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
repetition (noun) echolalia (noun)
the act of doing or performing again (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
an event that repeats
Difference between repetition and echolalia

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