Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. clinical psychology A complex tic comprising the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, which may sound like stuttering.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated
Etymologies
- From pali- + -lalia. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Schizophrenics frequently speak in a stilted, manneristic fashion, and the fluency of their speech may be intermittently disturbed, with paucity of speech, verbigeration (associations repeated in a stereotyped manner, palilalia in the aphasia literature), or perseveration (words or phrases repetitively inserted in the flow of speech).”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“I think I have palilalia/a tic - Is it onset by anxiety?”
“Complex vocal tics may involve having to repeat one phrase over and over, whether it is something one heard (echolalia) or one's own last words (palilalia). ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘palilalia’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, agraphia, malapropism and 54 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 356 more...
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EldriVon's list
My favourite words and I few that I just need to remember.
lugubrious, lachrymose, afflatus, aperçu, chthonic, discursive, draconian, ennui, alacrity, maudlin, fissiparous, bathetic and 9 more...
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I've Been Cornobbled!
From Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader:
"You won't find these archaic words in most dictionaries, but take our word for it--they're real. And just for fun, try to use them in a ...hobberdehoy, faffle, dasypygal, cornobble, collieshangie, wem, calcographer, bodewash, twiddlepoop, liripoop, leptorrhinian, bridelope and 61 more...
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words from others
words from other Wordies.
gesticulate, pomegranate, automagically, immutable, goblet, palilalia, obelisk, decalcomania, viscoelasticity, pipelining, balustrade, concomitant and 25 more...
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