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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: autism
Topics: clinical-psychology, human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Narrower terms: movie talk, TV talk
noun
An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: repetition, repeating
noun
an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: echo
History
From echo- + -lalia; echo- ultimately from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “reflected sound, echo”), -lalia from λαλιά (laliá, “talk, chat”).
Across languages
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
