repetition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of doing or saying something again.

   Learning a language takes a lot of repetition.

2. 2
   noun

   Something that happens again; a repeat.

   We want to avoid a repetition of last year's problems.

3. 3
   noun

   The repeated use of the same word or pattern for effect in speech or writing.

   The speech used repetition to make its message memorable.

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio. By surface analysis, repeat + -ition.

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