| 单词 | echolalia |
| 释义 | echolalia (once / 492472 pages) n The repetition of other people's words or sounds is echolalia. When the toddler you babysit repeats everything you say, over and over again, you can call it "annoying," or you can call it echolalia. Echolalia is a psychiatric term that's used to describe what some people with mental disorders or autism tend to do, automatically repeat what they hear other people say. There's no meaning intended in echolalia — it's simply a mechanical echoing of sounds. Babies do this too, when they're learning to speak. The word echolalia combines the Greek word for "resound, or echo," with lalia, or "speech." WORD FAMILYecholalia USAGE EXAMPLESA doctor, however, dampened hopes by identifying a case of echolalia—in psychiatric terms, a parroting of sounds that carries no weight of meaning. The New Yorker(Jul 04, 2016) Echolalia is a mental disease which makes people immediately repeat things that well people around them say. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five(1969) There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby(1925) 1n (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) Hyper repeating, repetition the act of doing or performing again 2n an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others Hyper echo a reply that repeats what has just been said |
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