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mimetic

Speech parts

1. mimetic - Noun

2. mimetic - Adjective

4. mimetic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Mimetical

Source: Webster's dictionary

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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst. Peter Greenaway

I am mimetic. If I write a book set in the seventeenth century, I write in a Baroque style. If I'm writing a book set in a newspaper office, I write in Journalese. Umberto Eco

It is not difference that dominates the world, but the obliteration of difference by mimetic reciprocity, which itself, being truly universal, shows the relativism of perpetual difference to be an illusion. René Girard

The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction. George R. R. Martin

mimetic coloring of a butterfly Source: Internet

the mimetic tendency of infancy Source: Internet

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