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- noun clinical psychology A complex
tic comprising therepetition orechoing of one's own spoken words, which may sound likestuttering .
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- noun a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated
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Examples
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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).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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I think I have palilalia/a tic - Is it onset by anxiety?
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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). "
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qms commented on the word palilalia
If fresh inspiration should fail ya
Repeat like they do in Australia.
The Bungle Bungle Range
And Woy Woy aren't strange
In Oz, where they've got palilalia.
December 11, 2015