mimetic

Speech parts

1. mimetic - Noun

2. mimetic - Adjective

4. mimetic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Mimetical

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

representative derivative imitation imitate mimic mock figurative counterfeit parrot sham imitative onomatopoeic unoriginal slavish mimesis
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Antonyms

original natural real true bona fide ideal
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Phrases with the word

mimetic fiction beta-mimetic mimetic desire

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

mimetene mimetese mimetesite mimetic desire mimetic fiction mimetical