Autoimitation

Quick meaning: Autoimitation is a noun meaning The imitation of oneself.

Meaning

The imitation of oneself.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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; […]

Word Forms

• autoimitations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include autohypnosis, auto-suggestion, self-reference, autosuggestion, autoanalysis, autopsychography.

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