imitativeness
- a word derived from imitative.
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If his greatest fault is his imitativeness, it is the U.S. of the past two decades that he has imitated.
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He is trying to divest them of mere imitativeness, of the veneer and decadence of a routine civilization.
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The 4,925,000-circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially at the Sun's imitativeness.
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First, his curiosity; second, novelty, or unexpectedness; third, imitativeness; fourth, illustrations based upon his experience.
From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.
Lawson painted in a certain way because it was his nature to, and through the imitativeness of a student sensitive to every influence, there pierced individuality.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)