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reiteration

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,167 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: reiterations

Reiteration is the saying of something over again. Endless reiteration.

It is repetition with a purpose, since the point is to make something stick. Reiteration is how anything is learnt and how anything false becomes believed.

Definitions of reiteration

  1. 1nounreiterationThe saying of something over again.C1

    “The reiteration of the same figure in every speech did the work.”

reiteration is a repeating.

Where it comes from

Re- plus iteration, from Latin iterare, to repeat, from iterum, again.

  1. Latin

    reiteratus

  2. English

    reiterate

  3. English, today

    reiteration

Built from

  • reiterare · Latin — to repeat
  • iterum · Latin — again

From reiterate + ion, equivalent to re + iteration. reiterate Early 15th century, from Latin reiteratus, past participle of reiterare (“to repeat”) from re- + iterare from iterum (“again”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

reiteration in the wild

  • The roll consists of an even reiteration of beats sufficiently rapid to prohibit rhythmic analysis.

    Drum roll

  • In total, reiterations account for 12.3 percent of its stemwood volume.

    Iluvatar (tree)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the iterum family

reiterate

reiteration — used about once every 159,543 pages · #15,167 · point at the bar for the others