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echoism

[ ek-oh-iz-uhm ]
/ ˈɛk oʊˌɪz əm /
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noun
onomatopoeia.
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Origin of echoism

First recorded in 1875–80; echo + -ism

Words nearby echoism

echogram, echograph, echography, echoic, echoic memory, echoism, echolalia, echolocate, echolocation, echo plate, echopraxia
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Words related to echoism

adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism

British Dictionary definitions for echoism

echoism
/ (ˈɛkəʊˌɪzəm) /
noun
onomatopoeia as a source of word formation
phonetic assimilation of one vowel to the vowel in the preceding syllable
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