Meanings
adjectiveoverimitative (comparative more overimitative, superlative most overimitative)
comparative more overimitative · superlative most overimitative
- Excessively imitative.
A problem of modelling techniques is that once an imitative tendency is developed it can lead a patient to be overimitative (i.e. he may start to imitate responses of the nurse which she does not want copying) […]
1978, Richard J. Butler, Gerald Rosenthall, Behaviour and Rehabilitation, page 135
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