1. facsimile - Noun
2. facsimile - Verb
A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
To make a facsimile of.
Source: Webster's dictionaryVery quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. Robert Rauschenberg
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. Robert Smithson
We have a hunger for something like authenticity, but are easily satisfied by an ersatz facsimile. George Orwell
I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem. Anderson Cooper
I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life. Tama Janowitz
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile. Ted Allen