Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reduplication

4 senses of reduplication

Sense 1
anadiplosis, reduplication -- (repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next)
       => repetition -- (the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device)

Sense 2
reduplication -- (the syllable added in a reduplicated word form)
       => syllable -- (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables")

Sense 3
reduplication -- (a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word))
       => word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")

Sense 4
reduplication, reiteration -- (the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof))
       => repetition, repeating -- (the act of doing or performing again)