See perseveration in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "perseverations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "perseveration (countable and uncountable, plural perseverations)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"per‧sev‧er‧a‧tion"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "perseverance"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "perseverate"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Psychology",
"orig": "en:Psychology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "56 20 14 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "57 18 11 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "70 11 9 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder."
],
"id": "en-perseveration-en-noun-njQDDuXu",
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
],
[
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrollable"
],
[
"repetition",
"repetition"
],
[
"particular",
"particular"
],
[
"response",
"response"
],
[
"word",
"word"
],
[
"phrase",
"phrase"
],
[
"gesture",
"gesture"
],
[
"absence",
"absence"
],
[
"cessation",
"cessation"
],
[
"stimulus",
"stimulus"
],
[
"brain",
"brain"
],
[
"injury",
"injury"
],
[
"organic",
"organic"
],
[
"disorder",
"disorder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychology) An uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Psychology",
"orig": "en:Psychology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus."
],
"id": "en-perseveration-en-noun-wbcQWxqo",
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
],
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
],
[
"continue",
"continue"
],
[
"repeat",
"repeat"
],
[
"act",
"act"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
],
[
"cessation",
"cessation"
],
[
"original",
"original"
],
[
"stimulus",
"stimulus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychology) The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance."
],
"id": "en-perseveration-en-noun-pMP4H4sU",
"links": [
[
"perseverance",
"perseverance"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006 February 1, Mark Furlong, “Just keep walking: shame has become passe, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one's own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others. (The ‘Me’ Revolution)”, in Arena Magazine:",
"text": "Being subjected to this mantra once more re-evokes the perseveration we routinely suffer in the moral ambiguity characterising our supposedly post-politics milieu.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009 September 23, Richard B. Hoppe, “Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience”, in pandasthumb.org:",
"text": "Perseveration with demonstrably false arguments. This is illustrated for creationism by the ability to construct an Index to Creationist Claims which describes the plethora of such false arguments, rebutted over and over in the scientific literature but persisted in by creationists.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An argument by repetition; a mantra."
],
"id": "en-perseveration-en-noun-n7UTQmdN",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"argument",
"argument"
],
[
"repetition",
"repetition"
],
[
"mantra",
"mantra"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) An argument by repetition; a mantra."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"derogatory",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pəˌsɛvəˈɹeɪʃən/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɚˌsɛvəˈɹeɪʃən/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "perseveration"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "perseverations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "perseveration (countable and uncountable, plural perseverations)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"per‧sev‧er‧a‧tion"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "perseverance"
},
{
"word": "perseverate"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Psychology"
],
"glosses": [
"An uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder."
],
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
],
[
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrollable"
],
[
"repetition",
"repetition"
],
[
"particular",
"particular"
],
[
"response",
"response"
],
[
"word",
"word"
],
[
"phrase",
"phrase"
],
[
"gesture",
"gesture"
],
[
"absence",
"absence"
],
[
"cessation",
"cessation"
],
[
"stimulus",
"stimulus"
],
[
"brain",
"brain"
],
[
"injury",
"injury"
],
[
"organic",
"organic"
],
[
"disorder",
"disorder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychology) An uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Psychology"
],
"glosses": [
"The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus."
],
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
],
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
],
[
"continue",
"continue"
],
[
"repeat",
"repeat"
],
[
"act",
"act"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
],
[
"cessation",
"cessation"
],
[
"original",
"original"
],
[
"stimulus",
"stimulus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychology) The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance."
],
"links": [
[
"perseverance",
"perseverance"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006 February 1, Mark Furlong, “Just keep walking: shame has become passe, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one's own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others. (The ‘Me’ Revolution)”, in Arena Magazine:",
"text": "Being subjected to this mantra once more re-evokes the perseveration we routinely suffer in the moral ambiguity characterising our supposedly post-politics milieu.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009 September 23, Richard B. Hoppe, “Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience”, in pandasthumb.org:",
"text": "Perseveration with demonstrably false arguments. This is illustrated for creationism by the ability to construct an Index to Creationist Claims which describes the plethora of such false arguments, rebutted over and over in the scientific literature but persisted in by creationists.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An argument by repetition; a mantra."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"argument",
"argument"
],
[
"repetition",
"repetition"
],
[
"mantra",
"mantra"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) An argument by repetition; a mantra."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"derogatory",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pəˌsɛvəˈɹeɪʃən/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɚˌsɛvəˈɹeɪʃən/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "perseveration"
}
Download raw JSONL data for perseveration meaning in English (3.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.