Echolalia vs Verbigeration - What's the difference?
echolalia | verbigeration |
(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:
An obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
As nouns the difference between echolalia and verbigeration
is that echolalia is (clinical psychology) the immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another while verbigeration is an obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.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.
