Echopraxia

Quick meaning: Echopraxia is a noun meaning (psychology, pathology, psychopathology) The involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.

Meaning

(psychology, pathology, psychopathology) The involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• echopraxias

Synonyms for echopraxia

Depending on context, synonyms include echokinesis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-imitation, autoimitation, echolalia, imitating, patterning, imitationism.

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