Synonyms for repetition
ˌrɛp ɪˈtɪʃ ənrep·e·ti·tion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. repetition

   Synonyms:
   iteration, reiteration, dwelling upon, diffuseness, verbosity, relation

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.2 / 5 votes

1. repeat, repetitionnoun

   an event that repeats

   "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"

   Synonyms:
   repeat, repetition, repeating

2. repetition, repeatingnoun

   the act of doing or performing again

   Synonyms:
   repeat, repetition, repeating

3. repetitionnoun

   the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

   Synonyms:
   repeat, repeating

Matched Categories

1. • Continuance
   • Periodic Event
   • Rhetorical Device

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. repetitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   iteration, dwelling, harping, reiteration

2. repetitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tautology, pleonasm, redundancy, diffuseness, verbosity

3. repetitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   recital, rehearsal, relation

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1. repetitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   iteration, reiteration, recurrence, verbigeration, tautology, echo, rote, recapitulation, reverberation

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1. List of paraphrases for "repetition":

   rehearsal, repeat, recurrence, repeating, duplication, re-run, non-repetition, reiteration, reoccurrence, repeater, run-through, replay, replication, indemnity, walk-through

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. repetition

   Synonyms:
   Rep

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How to use repetition in a sentence?

1. D. H. Lawrence:

   But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

2. Daniel Conkle:

   This 'license-to-discriminate' argument that seems to have this relentless repetition is just legally wrong, it is as if you just keep repeating something often enough it takes on a life of its own.

3. Ernest Dimnet:

   The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

4. Roland Barthes, Esprit:

   The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new films, new items but always the same meaning.

5. Pope Francis:

   The humble are those who are concerned not simply with the past but also with the future, since they know how to look ahead, to spread their branches, remembering the past with gratitude, the proud, on the other hand, simply repeat, grow rigid and enclose themselves in that repetition, feeling certain about what they know and fearful of anything new because they cannot control it.