I really, really want to know the word for this.

Factual Questions
1

This morning I heard a word in a podcast that was unfamiliar to me. It describes the repetitive use of a word in a sentence to intensify a statement, as in, “It was very, very hot.”

It sounded like “epizoikes”, but I can’t find anything close to that.

What word did I hear?

2

Close: epizeuxis.

3

Thank you! I knew it was something like that. Cool word.

4

epizeuxis

5

Better than epistaxis.

6

For anyone who wants to know how to pronounce it and can’t decipher pronunciation marks, here’s a dictionary entry with an audio clip.