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mimetic

[ mi-met-ik, mahy- ]

adjective

  1. characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry:

    mimetic gestures.

  2. mimic or make-believe.


mimetic

/ ɪˈɛɪ /

adjective

  1. of, resembling, or relating to mimesis or imitation, as in art, etc
  2. biology of or exhibiting mimicry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈپ, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • ·i·· adverb
  • ԴDzm·i adjective
  • non·i·· adverb
  • ܲm·i adjective
  • un·i·· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mimetic1

1625–35; < Greek īŧپó imitative, equivalent to īŧ- ( mimesis ) + -tikos -tic
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Example Sentences

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Prince, a professor in Waterloo's Department of Chemical Engineering, utilized these human-tissue mimetic hydrogels to promote the growth of small-scale tumour replicas derived from donated tumour tissue.

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The tune was jaunty, full of the cantering rhythms and mimetic horn calls that fit a song about hunting.

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At some level, it really, really means that this spoken system and even sign system that we do needs the mimetic system that we create when we gesture.

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But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.

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The building block of the internet is a referential, signifying, mimetic, poetics.

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