repetition vs reduplication

repetition and reduplication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
repetition	Yes	No	No	No
reduplication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, reduplication is a hyponym of repetition; that is, reduplication is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than repetition:

repetition: the act of doing or performing again
reduplication: the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)

Other hyponyms of repetition include echolalia, iteration, redundancy, reiteration, copying, action replay, instant replay, replay, renewal, replication.

As nouns, reduplication is a hyponym of repetition; that is, reduplication is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than repetition:

repetition: the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
reduplication: repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next

Other hyponyms of repetition include anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epanodos, epiphora, epistrophe, gemination, ploce, polyptoton, anaphora, epanaphora, anaphora, symploce.

repetition (noun)	reduplication (noun)
the act of doing or performing again	the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)
the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device	a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
an event that repeats	the syllable added in a reduplicated word form
	repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next

repetition vs reduplication

repetition and reduplication both are nouns.

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