epizeuxis.

Immediate repetition of a word or phrase without intervening words.

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Words that belong together

• emphatic epizeuxis
• a cry of epizeuxis

On the page

Her ‘No, no, no’ was epizeuxis stripped of explanation.

The repeated cry ‘Run, run’ gave the dialogue an epizeuxis the calmer account lacked.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.