perseveration

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Durvasula added that "stubbornness could be viewed as a form of perseveration, again, an executive function in the brain."

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023

Still, with Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell and Liz Phair as his “Inner White Girl” inspirations, Jackson writes songs that sting, his lyrics merging poetry and perseveration.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Instead, by a principle you might call the perseveration of enmity, a new population stepped in to take up the slack: mostly middle-class Protestants from other suburbs now mixing with ours at a new school.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2021

This was not an isolated bout of verbal perseveration.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015

He has always been troubled by the "perseveration" of tactual images which had a strong feeling tone and which were associated with seen or heard reports of the experiences of others.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo