Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autoimitation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-toim-i-ta-tion
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The imitation of oneself.

Countable; Uncountable

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; […]"

Etymology

From auto- + imitation.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: auto

Usage

Inflected Forms

autoimitations (plural)

Questions

What does autoimitation mean?: The imitation of oneself.
Where does autoimitation come from?: From auto- + imitation.

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