单词 | perseveration |
释义 | perseverationn. 1. Perseverance, persevering; persistence. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun] beleaving1340 continuationc1374 improbityc1380 perseveringc1380 perseverancec1384 continuancec1405 perseverationa1500 patience1517 constancea1533 importunity1533 persistence1546 persisting1576 going-on1578 persistency1600 constancy1623 stickle1652 rubbing shift1675 doggedness1824 stick-to-itiveness1859 persistiveness1864 holdfastness1869 continuativeness1881 stick-to-itness1881 a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 103 (MED) He most be fed of Cryst wyth v louys..The v ys persauaracyon in God. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlvi. f. 259v Which singuler perseueration in defence of her chastitie..esclarisheth to the whole flocke of womankynde, the bright beames of wisdome. 1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 57 Shee said, his faith and long perseueration, Had almost forc't her to commiseration. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. vi [He] in this siege manifested the utmost of what suffering and perseveration can do. 1915 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 7 388 The ‘Perseveration’-qualities of character, i.e. perseverance or persistency of will. 1971 Where Nov. 333/2 The Pinky and Perky annual shows this nauseating little pair in stories, pictures, strip cartoons [etc.]... Faced by this merciless perseveration, an adult reader can be excused for thinking longingly of an efficient bacon-slicer. 2. Psychology. The involuntary repetition or continuance of an action, thought, or utterance after the removal or alteration of the stimulus which prompted it, often as a result of brain damage. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > impairment of mental powers > impaired responsiveness perseveration1907 passivity1927 overinclusion1939 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > continuation of response > [noun] fusion1892 perseveration1907 stimulus generalization1943 1901 Brain 24 620 G. E. Müller and Pilzecker have shown that an image..that has occupied consciousness tends to rise again to consciousness spontaneously,..a tendency to which they give the name ‘Perseveration-tendenz’.] 1907 A. R. Diefendorf Clin. Psychiatry (ed. 2) B.35 In another phase of the disorder..patients use an indicated object in the same way they have just previously and correctly used another. Neisser happily names this disturbance perseveration. 1937 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 83 144 Perseveration, an extremely common symptom of organic disease..can be present in various degrees, and may extend to words, phrases, actions or to the total behaviour. 1973 P. E. Vernon in J. R. Royce Multivariate Anal. & Psychol. Theory 127 Tests of different kinds of perseveration, inertia or rigidity, often showed little or no correlation with one another. 2001 Wired Dec. 181/1 In the diagnostic lexicon, this kind of relentless behavior is called ‘perseveration’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500 |
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