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repetition
Overview of noun repetition
The noun repetition has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (6) repeat, repetition -- (an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's")
2. (4) repetition, repeating -- (the act of doing or performing again)
3. (1) repetition -- (the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun repetition
3 senses of repetition
Sense 1
repeat, repetition
=> periodic event, recurrent event
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
repetition, repeating
=> continuance, continuation
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
repetition
=> rhetorical device
=> device
=> expressive style, style
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun repetition
3 senses of repetition
Sense 1
repeat, repetition
=> sequence
=> cycle
=> replay, rematch
=> recurrence, return
Sense 2
repetition, repeating
=> echolalia
=> iteration
=> redundancy
=> reduplication, reiteration
=> copying
=> renewal
=> replication
Sense 3
repetition
=> anadiplosis, reduplication
=> epanalepsis
=> epanodos
=> epiphora, epistrophe
=> gemination
=> ploce
=> polyptoton
=> epanaphora, anaphora
=> anaphora
=> symploce
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun repetition
3 senses of repetition
Sense 1
repeat, repetition
=> periodic event, recurrent event
Sense 2
repetition, repeating
=> continuance, continuation
Sense 3
repetition
=> rhetorical device
Antonyms of noun repetition
Member Holonyms of noun repetition
Substance Holonyms of noun repetition
Part Holonyms of noun repetition
Member Meronyms of noun repetition
Substance Meronyms of noun repetition
Part Meronyms of noun repetition
Meronyms of noun repetition
Holonyms of noun repetition
Attributes of noun repetition
Derived Forms of noun repetition
3 senses of repetition
Sense 1
repeat, repetition
RELATED TO>(adj) repetitious#1
=> repetitive, repetitious
RELATED TO>(verb) repeat#3
=> recur, repeat
Sense 2
repetition, repeating
RELATED TO>(adj) repetitious#1
=> repetitive, repetitious
RELATED TO>(verb) repeat#2
=> duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
RELATED TO>(verb) repeat#1
=> repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
Sense 3
repetition
RELATED TO>(adj) repetitious#1
=> repetitive, repetitious
Domain of noun repetition
Domain Terms of noun repetition
Familiarity of noun repetition
repetition used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun repetition
3 senses of repetition
Sense 1
repeat, repetition
> periodic event, recurrent event
=> migration
=> cycle, oscillation
=> repeat, repetition
=> sunrise
=> sunset
=> pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat
=> tide
Sense 2
repetition, repeating
> continuance, continuation
=> prolongation, protraction, perpetuation, lengthening
=> repetition, repeating
=> perseverance, persistence, perseveration
=> abidance
=> pursuance, prosecution
=> survival
Sense 3
repetition
> rhetorical device
=> anacoluthia, anacoluthon
=> asyndeton
=> repetition
=> anastrophe, inversion
=> antiphrasis
=> antithesis
=> antinomasia
=> apophasis
=> aposiopesis
=> apostrophe
=> catachresis
=> chiasmus
=> climax
=> conversion
=> ecphonesis, exclamation
=> emphasis
=> enallage
=> epanorthosis
=> epiplexis
=> hendiadys
=> hypallage
=> hyperbaton
=> hypozeugma
=> hypozeuxis
=> hysteron proteron
=> litotes, meiosis
=> onomatopoeia
=> paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition
=> paregmenon
=> polysyndeton
=> prolepsis
=> wellerism
=> trope, figure of speech, figure, image
Meronyms of noun repetition
3 senses of repetition
Holonyms of noun repetition
Grep of noun repetition
repetition
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