Meanings
adjectiveecholalic (not comparable)
- not comparableclinical psychologyOf or pertaining to echolalia.
Their echolalic responses may be much more extensive than the single words or short phrases that are characteristic of normal echolalia. Thus, a pseudoverbal autistic child may respond to "Do you want a cookie, Jimmy?" with a replication of the very same words.
1984, Jon Eisenson, Aphasia and related disorders in children, page 30
Origin
Translations
French écholalique
- écholaliqueof or pertaining to echolalia
Irish macallach
- macallachof or pertaining to echolalia
Italian ecolalico
- ecolalicoof or pertaining to echolalia
Portuguese ecolálico
- ecolálicoof or pertaining to echolalia
Russian эхолали́ческий
- эхолали́ческий (exolalíčeskij)of or pertaining to echolalia
Swedish ekolalisk
- ekolaliskof or pertaining to echolalia
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with echolalic
metallicGaelicgallicphallicmalicphthalicHannibalicholoprosencephalicintervocalicithyphallicnonphallicthallicunmetallic
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APA
echolalic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echolalic
MLA
“echolalic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echolalic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “echolalic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echolalic.
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