| psellism | stuttering or stammering. | |
| battology | excessive repetition of words. | |
| ploce | (rhet.) repetition of a phrase. | |
| psittacism | meaningless, repetitive speech. | |
| pleonasm | redundancy; a redundant word or expression. | |
| gemination | duplication; repetition for rhetorical effect. | |
| mussitation | motion of the verbal apparatus, forming soundless speech; muttering. | |
| floccilation | delirious picking at the bedclothes. |