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单词 echolalia
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Definition of echolalia in English:

echolalia

noun ˌɛkəʊˈleɪlɪəˌɛkoʊˈleɪliə
mass noun
  • 1Psychiatry
    Meaningless repetition of another person's spoken words as a symptom of psychiatric disorder.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Complex tics might include jumping, smelling objects, touching the nose, touching other people, coprolalia, echolalia, or self-harming behaviors.
    • Three patients were found to respond to the fenfluramine therapy with reduction in echolalia, perseveration and motor disturbances and an increase in attention and social awareness.
    • Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
    • He said he had echolalia, which, the narrator explains, is a mental disease where the patient repeats what they hear.
    • Many children with autism do not develop speech and other children with the disorder often exhibit unusual speech patterns such as echolalia or the repetition of what has been heard.
  • 2Repetition of speech by a child learning to talk.

    Synonyms
    repeating, echoing, parroting, quoting, copying

Origin

Late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek ēkhō 'echo' + lalia 'speech'.

Rhymes

Australia, azalea, bacchanalia, Castalia, dahlia, genitalia, inter alia, Lupercalia, Mahalia, marginalia, paraphernalia, regalia, Saturnalia, Thalia, Westphalia
 
 

Definition of echolalia in US English:

echolalia

nounˌɛkoʊˈleɪliəˌekōˈlālēə
Psychiatry
  • 1Meaningless repetition of another person's spoken words as a symptom of psychiatric disorder.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many children with autism do not develop speech and other children with the disorder often exhibit unusual speech patterns such as echolalia or the repetition of what has been heard.
    • Three patients were found to respond to the fenfluramine therapy with reduction in echolalia, perseveration and motor disturbances and an increase in attention and social awareness.
    • Complex tics might include jumping, smelling objects, touching the nose, touching other people, coprolalia, echolalia, or self-harming behaviors.
    • Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
    • He said he had echolalia, which, the narrator explains, is a mental disease where the patient repeats what they hear.
    1. 1.1 Repetition of speech by a child learning to talk.
      Synonyms
      repeating, echoing, parroting, quoting, copying

Origin

Late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek ēkhō ‘echo’ + lalia ‘speech’.

 
 
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