reduplicative

American  

[ri-doo-pli-key-tiv, -dyoo-] / rɪˈdu plɪˌkeɪ tɪv, -ˈdyu- /

adjective

1. tending to reduplicate.

2. pertaining to or marked by reduplication.

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Other Word Forms

• reduplicatively adjective

Etymology

Origin of reduplicative

First recorded in 1560–70; reduplicate + -ive

Example Sentences

In another case of Morvan’s, the patient reported reduplicative paramnesia; he firmly believed that his home had been copied by a stranger and that the replica existed 40 miles away.

From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2013

Why-Why was silent, but thought in his heart that the whole theory was “bosh-bosh,” to use the early reduplicative language of these remote times. 

From In the Wrong Paradise by Lang, Andrew

That is reduplicative, which is not onely in this point, but also in another, having a kind of circumscribed ubiquitie, viz. in its own sphear.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

I even solemnly ask, forgetting my Max Müller, what lies at the root of this strange reduplicative process.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)