echopraxia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For example, a tic is an automatic form of echopraxia, involving to some slight degree the emotions and the volition and having been originally acquired by suggestion and imitation."
- "1964, Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry, Volumes 32-33, Institute of Living, page 260, Echolalia and echopraxia have been recognized as symptoms of seriously disturbed behavior in adults for over a century."
- "Several patients, after repeated experience of echopraxia and pantomime, had the delusion that they could communicate with others without using words—merely transmitting ideas by a bodily movement."