Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting mimicry.
- adjective Of or relating to an imitation; imitative.
- adjective Using imitative means of representation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to mimicry or imitation; apt in mimicry; aping.
- Imitating; imitative.
- In mineralogy, approximating closely to — that is, imitating — other forms of a higher degree of symmetry. This characteristic usually results from twinning. For example, aragonite occurs in twin crystals which at first sight appear to be hexagonal in form. See
pseudosymmetry and twin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
- (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Exhibiting
mimesis - noun Something mimetic or
imitative . - noun education A type of
mnemonic . - noun pharmacology A substance with similar pharmacological effects to another substance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exhibiting mimicry
- adjective characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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High mimetic is not a phase but a heroic register (and one we might well argue turns romance into epic and horror into tragedy).
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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High mimetic is not a phase but a heroic register (and one we might well argue turns romance into epic and horror into tragedy).
A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009
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It is never the case that a single hegemonic entity called capitalism enters new settings that simply succumb in mimetic fashion to the new order that is thus reproduced neatly and cleanly over these remote environments.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Low mimetic is likewise a non-heroic register, a register of realism in the representation of an individual’s relationship to society.
A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009
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Low mimetic is likewise a non-heroic register, a register of realism in the representation of an individual’s relationship to society.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Kant also assumes that although our pleasure in beauty should be a response to the form of an object alone, fine art is paradigmatically mimetic, that is, has representational or semantic content (CPJ, §48, 5: 311).
18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007
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But this does not in reality differ from the Aristotelian mimetic, which is concerned, not only with the real, but also with the possible.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Next time, I'm planning to investigate the notion of mimetic desire - unless there's anywhere else you'd rather visit first.
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In English these are called mimetic words, or a mimesis, but who knows what that means anyway?
JapanNewbie 2009
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Some of the ads were the buildings themselves (it's called mimetic architecture).
Latest News 2008
Louises commented on the word mimetic
I remembered the days when seeing someone move through the air like that would have been a thrilling shock, the days before we'd all seen it countless times in the movies. Modernity's mimetic inversion: you see the real and are struck by how much it looks like a tediously seamless special effect. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 6, 2012