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Definition of Echolalia
1. Noun. An infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others.
2. Noun. (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia).
Category relationships: Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Psychopathology
Definition of Echolalia
1. Noun. (clinical psychology) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another. ¹
2. Noun. An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Echolalia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Echolalia
1. A disorder of speech where there is an involuntary repetition several times of the same word. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Echolalia
Literary usage of Echolalia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental Defectives: Their History, Treatment, and Training by Martin W. Barr (1904)
"It remains, therefore, that the literature of this subject is most meager, the
search for information most discouraging. echolalia,2 or ..."
2. Types of Mental Defectives by Martin W. Barr, Earle Francis Maloney (1920)
"echolalia is a parrot-like repetition of words and sentences which may or may
not be fully ... Complete echolalia is rarely met with, but partial echolalia, ..."
3. Diseases of the eye and disorders of speech in childhood by Oskar Everbusch, Max Nadoleczny (1914)
"Words repeated in echolalia usually have the same intonation as our own language,
but may also deviate and become monotonous, failing to embrace the lingual ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Such a value to echolalia may also be given in other psychoses, including the
... echolalia may vary in degree from the slightest, the purposeful repetition ..."
5. French-English Medical Dictionary by Alfred Gordon (1921)
"echolalia (repetition of sounds, words heard close to the ear—observed sometimes in
... echolalia ..."
6. Clinical Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin, Allen Ross Diefendorf (1907)
"In echolalia the patient involuntarily repeats every word he hears, although at
the same time giving evidence of considerable elaboration of impressions by ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"In these cases echolalia is usually accompanied by other aphasic symptoms.
Such a value to echolalia may also be given in other psychoses, including the ..."
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