Repetition vs Overrehearsed - What's the difference?
repetition | overrehearsed |
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
(lb): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep'. A group of ' repetitions is a set.
To petition again.
* 2011 , Anneke Campbell, ?Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
Rehearsed too many times; made formulaic by repetition.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 28, author=Gregory Cowles, title=Grievous Angel, work=New York Times
, passage=In a long digression, he hilariously but needlessly indulges his hatred of the Eagles: soulless, overrehearsed , antiseptic, schematic, insincere, sentimental ... the most consistently contemptible stadium band in rock. }}
As a noun repetition
is repetition.As an adjective overrehearsed is
rehearsed too many times; made formulaic by repetition.repetition
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.
Anagrams
* ----overrehearsed
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation