autoimitation

plural autoimitations

1. countableuncountableThe imitation of oneself.

   Thiemich mentions cases of hysteria in children in which the symptoms of a preceding organic affection are continued by autoimitation long after the original condition has returned to normal.

   1908, Archives of Pediatrics, page 96

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   The essential process is the copying of one's own action and not the action of some one else. It is thus seen that all imitation is of the reflex type, and fundamentally all imitation is autoimitation.

   1923, Frederick Elmer Bolton, Everyday Psychology for Teachers, page 218

   Imitation and autoimitation are certain forms of behaviour, and hence imitationism is a proposal to reduce inner experience (introspection) to external experience (extraspection) via a translation of psychological statements into sentences about corresponding imitations or autoimitations; […]

   2012, Jan Wolenski, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov—Warsaw School, page 230