Definitions for echolalia

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echolalia ech·o·la·li·a

Spelling: [ek-oh-ley-lee-uh]

IPA: /ˌɛk oʊˈleɪ li ə/

Echolalia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 255 anagrams from letters in echolalia (aacehillo).

Definitions for echolalia

noun

1. Psychiatry. the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person.
2. the imitation by a baby of the vocal sounds produced by others, occurring as a natural phase of childhood development.

Origin of echolalia

First recorded in 1880-85; echo + -lalia

Examples for echolalia

It is an interesting fact that of twelve cases of echolalia that have come under our observation, fifty per cent.

echolalia in the blind has been made the subject of an interesting study by Noir.

The coincidence is a rational one; blindness and echolalia are united as cause and effect.

In addition, she suffered from echolalia, echokinesis, and folie du doute.

echolalia, however, is not an exclusive appurtenance of those who tic.

The echolalia that still appears now and then really belongs to this.