Echolalia vs Echokinesis - What's the difference?
echolalia | echokinesis | Related terms |
(clinical psychology) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.
An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
* 1926 , , The Great Gatsby , Penguin 2000, p. 50:
(psychology) the compulsion or the act of imitating movements of others
Echolalia is a related term of echokinesis.
As nouns the difference between echolalia and echokinesis
is that echolalia is (clinical psychology) the immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another while echokinesis is (psychology) the compulsion or the act of imitating movements of others.echolalia
English
(wikipedia echolalia)Noun
- There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.
