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perseverate (verb) -
1a: to recur or repeat continually
b: to intently focus one's attention on a thought or thoughts : fixate
2 psychology : to have or display an involuntary repetitive behavior or thought : to exhibit perseveration
Source : Merriam-Webster
Etymology : Looking at perseverate and perseveration, you may guess that the latter was formed by adding a suffix to the former, but that is not the case. Perseveration is actually the older term by a few years. In the early 1900s, psychologists adopted perseveration from German for the act of repeating a behavior over and over again—for instance, continually repeating the same syllable or word might be called "verbal perseveration." Shortly afterward, those scientists wanted a verb for such acts of repetition, so they changed the -ation of perseveration to -ate and perseverate was born. Perseverate continued to evolve and persevere in the English language, which led to its broad
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