echolalia
noun/ˌekəʊˈleɪliə/
/ˌekəʊˈleɪliə/
[uncountable] (medical)- the act of repeating everything somebody says, as a result of a mental conditionTopics Disabilityc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek ēkhō ‘echo’ + lalia ‘speech’.
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