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echopraxia

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Definitions

  1. The involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.

Word origin

From echo- + -praxia. Analogous to echolalia.

Used in a sentence

  • For example, a tic is an automatic form of echopraxia, involving to some slight degree the emotions and the volition and having been originally acquired by suggestion and imitation.
  • 1964, Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry, Volumes 32-33, Institute of Living, page 260, Echolalia and echopraxia have been recognized as symptoms of seriously disturbed behavior in adults for over a century.
  • Several patients, after repeated experience of echopraxia and pantomime, had the delusion that they could communicate with others without using words—merely transmitting ideas by a bodily movement.

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