echopraxia

From echo- +‎ -praxia. Analogous to echolalia.

echopraxia (countable and uncountable, plural echopraxias)

1. (psychology, pathology, psychopathology) The involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.

   Synonym: echokinesis

   • 1906, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 33, Williams & Wilkins, page 547:

     For example, a tic is an automatic form of echopraxia, involving to some slight degree the emotions and the volition and having been originally acquired by suggestion and imitation.

   • 1964, Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry, Volumes 32-33, Institute of Living, page 260,

     Echolalia and echopraxia have been recognized as symptoms of seriously disturbed behavior in adults for over a century.

   • 1966, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 112, Royal Medico-Psychological Association, page 241:

     Several patients, after repeated experience of echopraxia and pantomime, had the delusion that they could communicate with others without using words—merely transmitting ideas by a bodily movement.

• copropraxia
• echolalia
• palipraxia