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

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)

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