overimitative

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English

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Etymology

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over- +‎ imitative

Adjective

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overimitative (comparative more overimitative, superlative most overimitative)

  1. Excessively imitative.
    • 1978, Richard J. Butler, Gerald Rosenthall, Behaviour and Rehabilitation, page 135:
      A problem of modelling techniques is that once an imitative tendency is developed it can lead a patient to be overimitative (i.e. he may start to imitate responses of the nurse which she does not want copying) []