psittacism

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  1. A mechanical state of the mind in which reflective consciousness plays little or no part: alluding to the parrot which remembers and repeats words of which it does not know the sense. Then followed monographs on psittacism and symbolic thought, heredity, and laughter. Amer. Jour. Relig. Psychol. and Education, May, 1904, p. 107.

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  1. Greek ψιττακός, a parrot, + -ism.
 

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