(Psychiatry)meaningless repetition of another person's spoken words as a symptom of psychiatric disorder (精神病学)言语模仿症,模仿言语 ■repetition of speech by a child learning to talk 幼儿学语(指通过模仿学习说话)
语源
late 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek ēkhē 'echo' + lalia 'speech'