echolalia
英 [,ekəʊ'leɪlɪə]
美[,ɛko'lelɪə]
- n. [医] 模仿言语
英英释义
- 1. an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
- 2. (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
英文词源
- echolalia (n.)
- "meaningless repetition of words and phrases," 1876, from German (von Romberg, 1865), from Greek ekho (see echo (n.)) + lalia "talk, prattle, a speaking," from lalein "to speak, prattle," of echoic origin.