Definition of Echolalic

1. Adjective. (clinical psychology) Of or pertaining to echolalia. ¹

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Definition of Echolalic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Echolalic

echoise
echoised
echoises
echoising
echoism
echoisms
echoist
echoists
echoize
echoized
echoizes
echoizing
echokinesis
echolalia
echolalias
echolalic (current term)
echoless
echolike
echolocate
echolocated
echolocates
echolocating
echolocation
echolocational
echolocations
echomail
echomatism
echometer
echometers
echometry

Literary usage of Echolalic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1919)
"In suppressing interpretation she suppresses echolalic tendencies, and the mind will act in the direction of its own memories. Now with Mrs. Piper the names ..."

2. Birmingham Medical Review (1905)
"... and from the second month the child babbles away to itself quite incomprehensible babble for a long time, and often is to a certain degree echolalic, ..."

3. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1910)
"... where the mental side of the phenomena may occur tho the physical cannot occur except as echolalic or automatic results of the mental and executed by ..."

4. Insanity and its treatment: Lectures on the Treatment, Medical and Legal, of by George Fielding Blandford, Allan McLane Hamilton (1886)
"When he does talk it is in a garrulous manner, and like the echolalic idiot he repeats the last phrase he may have heard, or one word over and over. ..."

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