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Definition: Echolalia |
EcholaliaNoun1. (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | The pathological repetition by imitation of the speech of another. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Echolalia (1980) | |
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Health | Children with Fragile X often speak in rapid bursts or repeat words (called echolalia). (references) | |
Complex tics might include jumping, smelling objects, touching the nose, touching other people, coprolalia, echolalia, or self-harming behaviors. (references) | ||
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| "Echolalia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Echolalia" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
echolalia | 46 |
delayed echolalia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "echolalia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | ekkolali. (various references) | |
Dutch | echolalie. (various references) | |
French | écholalie. (various references) | |
German | Echosprache, Echophrasie, Echolalie. (various references) | |
Italian | ecolalia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | echolaliaay.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "echolalia": echolalias. (additional references) | |
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"Echolalia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: echolalic, echololia, ecolalia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l-o" | |
-1 letter: achillea, heliacal. | |
-2 letters: acholia, challie, helical, lochial. | |
-3 letters: aecial, challa, cholla, collie, halloa, heliac, hilloa, laical, locale, lochia, ocelli. | |
-4 letters: aecia, aloha, calla, cella, celli, cello, chela, chiao, chiel, chile, chill, coala, hallo, haole, helio, hello, hillo, holla, ileac, ileal, laich, leach, lilac, loach, local, oleic. | |
-5 letters: ache, alae, alec, aloe, call, calo, ceil, cell, chao, chia, ciao, coal, coil, cola, cole, each, echo, elhi, hail, hale, hall, halo, heal, heil, hell, helo, hila, hill, hole, ilea, lace, laic, leal, lech, lice, lich, loca, loch, loci, ohia, olea, olla. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: echolalias. | |
+2 letters: melancholia. | |
+3 letters: allelopathic, melancholiac, melancholias. | |
+4 letters: archeological, hematological, melancholiacs. | |
+5 letters: accomplishable, archaeological, enharmonically, eschatological, geographically, metallographic, metaphorically, paleographical, phraseological, theocratically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 63 68 6F 6C 61 6C 69 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.-. .... --- .-.. .- .-.. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E c h o l a l i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0063 0068 006F 006C 0061 006C 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)396974817867787567 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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