reduplication

American  

[ri-doo-pli-key-shuhn, -dyoo-] / rɪˌdu plɪˈkeɪ ʃən, -ˌdyu- /

noun

1. the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.

2. something resulting from reduplicating.

3. Grammar.

   1. reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.

   2. the added element in a reduplicated form.

   3. a form containing a reduplicated element.

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reduplication British  

/ rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən /

noun

1. the process or an instance of redoubling

2. the state, condition, or quality of being redoubled

3. a thing that has been redoubled

4. repetition of a sound or syllable in a word, as in the formation of the Latin perfect tetigi from tangere "touch"

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-reduplication
  noun

Etymology

Origin of reduplication

First recorded in 1580–90, reduplication is from the Late Latin word reduplicātiōn- (stem of reduplicātiō ). See reduplicate, -ion

Example Sentences

We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."

From Time Magazine Archive

What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

From Time Magazine Archive

In the composition I have chosen for our illustration, this reduplication 139 is employed to a singular extent.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John

Did you never feel a sense of a reduplication of any passing occurrence, act, or scene—something which you were saying or doing, or in which you were actor or spectator?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various