Definition of Repetition

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Repetition

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

Recital from memory; rehearsal.

The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.

Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.

The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

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Repetition Quotations

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale

Constant repetition carries conviction.
Robert Collier

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
William Safire

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp

Repetition Translations

repetition in Danish is gentagelse
repetition in Dutch is herhaling, repetitie
repetition in Italian is replica
repetition in Latin is repetitio
repetition in Swedish is upprepning, repetition

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