echolalia

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
noun (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)

From echo- + -lalia; echo- ultimately from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “reflected sound, echo”), -lalia from λαλιά (laliá, “talk, chat”).

At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden. — The Great Gatsby, F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

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