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mimesis
[ mi-mee-sis, mahy- ]
noun
- Rhetoric. imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of someone else, as in order to represent their character.
- (in literature, film, art, etc.)
- imitation of the real world, as by re-creating instances of human action and events or portraying objects found in nature:
This movie is a mimesis of historical events.
- the showing of a story, as by dialogue and enactment of events. Compare diegesis ( def 1 ).
- Biology. imitation ( def 5 ).
- Zoology. mimicry ( def 2 ).
- the simulation, due to hysteria, of the symptoms of a disease.
- the simulation of the symptoms of one disease by another.
mimesis
/ mɪˈmiːsɪs /
noun
- art literature the imitative representation of nature or human behaviour
- any disease that shows symptoms of another disease
- a condition in a hysterical patient that mimics an organic disease
- biology another name for mimicry
- rhetoric representation of another person's alleged words in a speech
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mimesis1
C16: from Greek, from mimeisthai to imitate
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Example Sentences
Never, never in my life before did I dream that dramatic art, poetry, and mimesis could attain to such ideal splendour.
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The habit of this mimesis of the thing desired, is set up, and ritual begins.
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This is the true mimesis—the re-creation or fresh creation of fictitious reality.
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Even Plato, the supposed father of idealism, does not make the mimesis absolutely unreal.
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Neither Plato nor Mr. Emerson recognizes any causative force in the mimesis.
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