Repetition synonyms and antonyms
rĕp'ĭ-tĭsh'ən
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A set of computer instructions for performing a specific operation
battological
A return ticket.
syllable (related)
The definition of a copy is an exact duplicate of someone or something.
(Law) Any of several treatises published by the American Law Institute in which a group of legal scholars within a field of law set forth the principles of that field of law based on legal precedents.
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Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
The act of reiterating.
The act or result of rehashing:
perseveration
The tendency of an idea, impression, experience, etc. to persist or recur, or of an individual to continue a particular mental activity without the ability to shift easily to another at a change in stimulus
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Imitative of a sound; onomatopoeic.
A dismissal of an employee from work for being no longer necessary; a layoff.
Of, showing, or using alliteration
Of a procedure that involves repetition of steps (iteration) to achieve the desired outcome; in computing this may involve a mechanism such as a loop.
Having little or no variation or variety
perseverant
Of, or relating to pleonasm.
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reduplicative
Formed by redoubling; reduplicate, double
That involves reiteration
The definition of repetitious is something repeated over and over.
Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating.
(Botany, zoology) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.
Hackneyed; trite
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Of, relating to, or using tautology
The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.
(Linguistics) The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer to the same person or object as another unit, usually a noun. The use of her to refer to the person named by Anne in the sentence Anne asked Edward to pass her the salt is an example of anaphora.
battology
Continual unnecessary reiteration of the same words, phrases, or ideas.
Anything one has to bear or put up with; heavy load, as of work, duty, responsibility, or sorrow
A group of singers who perform together, usually singing multi-part compositions with more than one singer for each part.
The sound produced in this manner.
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ingemination
iterance
Iteration.
The definition of iteration is a new version of computer software, or the repetition of some word or process.
Perseverance is persistence in sticking to a plan.
A habitual or customary action or way of doing something:
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(Law) A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.
Something produced by reduplicating, as a word containing a reduplicated element
A song or melody.
The definition of a rehearsal is a practice session or practice performance done prior to a real event or before viewing by an audience.
A reverberating or being reverberated; a reechoing or being reechoed; reflection of light or sound waves, deflection of heat or flame, etc.
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verbigeration
An obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
battologize
To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
(Now Rare) To stress or make more forceful by repeating
To utter or do again or repeatedly
perseverate
To experience or display perseveration
To recapitulate is to restate or briefly summarize what you have said or the information presented.
To make twice as much or twice as great
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To make a summary or make a summary of.
tautologize
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
instance (antonym)
Instance is defined as an occurrence of something, or a specific situation, happening or event.
In Aristotelianism, artistic portrayal not as literal copying but as representation of the essential nature of something
Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
Light or color resulting from reflection
repitition (related)
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utterance (related)
ambiguity (related)
harmonic (related)
rhythmic (related)
articulation (related)
A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
Something that takes place again.
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(--- Biology) The process by which genetic material, a single-celled organism, or a virus reproduces or makes a copy of itself.
(Genetics) The occurrence of a repeated section of genetic material in a chromosome.
(Logic) An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.
To redouble, double, or repeat
intonation (related)
repetition (related)
Repetition is the act of doing or saying something over and over and over again.
Find another word for repetition. In this page you can discover 80 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for repetition, like: routine, battological, rerun, return, syllable, copy, restatement, rote, reiterate, renewal and recapitulation.
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