Echoic meaning

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Of or resembling an echo.
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Imitative of natural sounds; onomatopoeic.

An echoic word.

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Having the nature of an echo.
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Imitative in sound; onomatopoeic: a term used, as in the etymologies of this dictionary, to indicate that a word, as tinkle, is formed in approximate imitation of some sound.
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Of or pertaining to an echo.
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Sentence Examples

  • echoic memory, which is the part of sensory memory that receives sound stimulation from the surrounding environment.

  • echoic utterances, or metarepresentation?

  • variant of Pumpe is Plumpe, which is generally taken as being an echoic word, imitating the sound of the plunger, but the primary notion seems to be that of a pipe or tube.

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