echo chamber

noun

: a room with sound-reflecting walls used for producing hollow or echoing sound effects

—often used figuratively

Living in a kind of echo chamber of their own opinions, they pay attention to information that fits their conclusions and ignore information that does not.

—James Surowiecki

Examples of echo chamber in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Everyone knows it, except those sitting in the Sacramento echo chamber. —Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025

And while a therapist should be supportive, therapy is not meant to be an echo chamber. —Christina Caron, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025

Saturday's cartoons - losing it, pedal to the metal, and more Newsletter sign up By The Week US published 13 hours ago Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber. —The Week Us, theweek, 21 Dec. 2024

With all the interior trimmings evicted and a track-only Borla exhaust fitted, the car becomes a deafening echo chamber when its Coyote is breathing. —Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for echo chamber

• antechamber
• bedchamber