Echy

Echy is a neologism used in online discourse to describe content that imitates or reappears by echoing an earlier post, thereby creating an in-thread echo. It is informal and not included in formal dictionaries. The word blends the noun echo with the common adjectival suffix -y, yielding echy as both an adjective and a noun.

As an adjective, echy describes posts, comments, or memes that echo prior material; as a noun, echy can refer to the echo-like content itself. For example, a comment that mirrors or closely repeats a previous point may be called echy. The term is most commonly encountered in discussions about internet culture, memes, and argumentation dynamics.

Etymology and spread: echy is formed from echo plus the suffix -y. It appears in English-language online communities from the 2010s onward and has gained some traction in informal analyses of discourse and meme propagation. Its usage remains casual and situational, with varying tolerance for precision or formality across communities.

Limitations and scope: echy is not a standardized term and is not uniformly defined. Its meaning can shift with context, from describing a literal repetition of content to a more general sense of reverberation within a conversation. It is primarily a social-media and internet-communication concept rather than a formal linguistic category.

See also: echo, echoic, reduplication, memetics.