mimetic
Americanadjective
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characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry.
mimetic gestures.
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mimic or make-believe.
adjective
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of, resembling, or relating to mimesis or imitation, as in art, etc
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biology of or exhibiting mimicry
Other Word Forms
- mimetically adverb
- nonmimetic adjective
- nonmimetically adverb
- unmimetic adjective
- unmimetically adverb
Etymology
Origin of mimetic
1625–35; < Greek mīmētikós imitative, equivalent to mīmē- ( mimesis ) + -tikos -tic
Example Sentences
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"Clicktetrazine dECM-alginate hydrogels for injectable, mechanically mimetic, and biologically active vocal fold biomaterials" by Mika Brown,Hideaki Okuyama, Ling Li, Zhen Yang, Jianyu Li, Maryam Tabrizian and Nicole Li-Jessen was published in Biomaterials.
From Science Daily • Jan. 2, 2026
Our big, warm climate and our wide-open spaces made possible something that earned its own genre: mimetic architecture, whimsical buildings that look like something else, often the thing that they sell.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
The tune was jaunty, full of the cantering rhythms and mimetic horn calls that fit a song about hunting.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023
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.
From Salon • Jul. 8, 2023
The mimetic fabric was only responding to him.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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