perseveratorn.
/pəˈsɛvəreɪtə/, U.S. /pərˈsɛvəˌreɪdər/ Psychology.
A person who perseverates.
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perseverator1915
1915 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 7 389 This inhibition of a succeeding by the effect of a preceding experience must also be expected to reveal itself in the relative slowness of the perseverator.
1927 C. E. Spearman Abilities of Man xvii. 292 The perseverator has been assumed to be stable in his emotions and steadfast in his purposes.
1996 Diss. Abstr. Internat. B. 57 2156 Five clusters [of schizophrenic patients]: Non-impaired, Impaired, Perseverators, Inefficient Sorters, and Idiosyncratic Sorters emerged from the data.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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