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echo chamber

echo chamber noun: a room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose.

Noun

echo chamber (plural echo chambers)

  1. A room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose.
  2. A sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through a sound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to producing echoes or echoing.
  3. (broadly, figuratively) An environment in which a person is exposed to only those beliefs and opinions that agree with their own, so that their existing views are magnified and reinforced while alternative ideas are not expressed or considered.
    • But it would resound in the conservative media's echo chamber.2007, Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
    • “What you’re going to end up doing is amplifying within an echo chamber, which is really different from what the movement wants,” said Dana Fisher, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland whose research focuses on activism.2020 March 19, Shola Lawal, quoting Dana Fisher, “Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan”, in New York Times

echo chamber meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

echo chamber in Tamil

எதிரொலிக் கூடம்

echo chamber in Arabic

environment which unilaterally reinforces one's own views, beliefs, or opinions
غُرْفَة الصَّدَى

echo chamber in Malay

environment which unilaterally reinforces one's own views, beliefs, or opinions
tempurung

echo chamber in Indonesian

room
kamar gema
environment which unilaterally reinforces one's own views, beliefs, or opinions
kamar gema

Examples of echo chamber in a sentence

  • The videos were tailored for the “echo chamber” that is often created by social media networks like YouTube.2021 April 15, Cade Metz, “Feeding Hate With Video: A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
  • “AmFest is not about echo chambers,” she said.2025 December 20, Richard Fausset, Ken Bensinger, quoting Erika Kirk, “Turning Point’s Annual Gathering Turns Into a Gripefest”, in The New...

Synonyms of echo chamber

Forms of echo chamber

pluralecho chambers

Questions about echo chamber

What does echo chamber mean?
Echo chamber means a room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose.
What is echo chamber in Tamil?
Echo chamber in Tamil is எதிரொலிக் கூடம். See Echo chamber meaning in Tamil.
How do you use echo chamber in a sentence?
The videos were tailored for the “echo chamber” that is often created by social media networks like YouTube.
What part of speech is echo chamber?
Echo chamber is a noun.
What is the plural of echo chamber?
The plural of echo chamber is echo chambers.

Words near echo chamber in the dictionary

  1. Echlin
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  4. echo boomer
  5. echo boomers
  6. echo chamber
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  8. echo parakeet
  9. echo parakeets
  10. echo plate
  11. echo plates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: echo chamber (page history and authors); echo chamber (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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