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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of impersonating, or the state of being impersonated.
  • noun Representation of a person; personation: as, an impersonation of Lear.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of impersonification.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun imitating the mannerisms of another person
  • noun a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
  • noun pretending to be another person

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