overimitative

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ imitative.

Adjective

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) […]