reduplicative

[ ri-doo-pli-key-tiv, -dyoo- ]

adjective

1. tending to reduplicate.
2. pertaining to or marked by reduplication.

Other Words From

• re·dupli·cative·ly adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of reduplicative¹

First recorded in 1560–70; reduplicate + -ive

Example Sentences

Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford, recalls that Scalia pulled a similar trick in 2013, when he used the “colorful reduplicative colloquialism” argle-bargle.

From Time

Reduplicative paramnesia in Morvan’s syndrome.

From Scientific American

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

And this is either by being in that sphear omnipresent it self, as the soul is said to be in the body tota in toto & tota in qualibet parte, or else at least by propagation of rayes, which is the image of it self; and so are divers sensible objects Reduplicative, as light, colours, sounds.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg