mirroringn.
/ˈmɪrərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪrərɪŋ/ 1.
a. Reflection, replication, etc., as in a mirror; an instance of this.
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society > communication > representation > [noun] > as in a mirror
bemirrormenta1849
mirroring1857
1857 Athenaeum 10 Oct. 1259/3 On David's return to Paris in 1780 every thing conspired to make him a classical painter, and avert him from the mirroring of actual life.
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vi. 173 A perfectly faithful mirroring of the thought of Jesus.
1915 Philos. Rev. 24 394 These organic states and these phenomena of which the organism is the seat are at the same time a reflection or mirroring of cosmic states and phenomena.
1967 W. J. Bancroft Reflexivity & Perceptivism in Gide's Fiction (Ph.D. thesis, Harvard Univ.) 12 The mirroring of the effort to write in the persona of the narrator may be labelled reflexivity.
1990 J. Bradshaw Homecoming ii. 38 The child's natural sense of his value and dignity..demands immediate mirroring and echoing from a nurturing caretaker.
b. Imitation of the gestures, posture, expression, etc., of a person with whom one is interacting, esp. as a technique for improving or manipulating communication.
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1966 Psychosomatic Medicine 28 314 The content themes coincident with mirroring were principally centered upon critical awareness of the significance of events in the patient's previous day and attempts to effect therapeutic gain by examining the patient's reactions to them.
1976 Group & Organizational Stud. Sept. 328 The greater the amount of mirroring and congruent postures evidenced by students vis-à-vis the teacher, the higher the ratings of involvement.
1989 D. Lewis Secret Lang. Success xi. 150 Mirroring is one of the most rapid and reliable means of developing rapport and winning another's confidence. With only a little practice you will find it comes..naturally.
1992 Chatelaine Sept. 186/2 You can also use nonverbal mirroring, or ‘body language’ to create rapport.
1999 Independent on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 31 Oct. Copying the other person's gestures, known as mirroring, is also useful.
2. Computing. A data storage process in which data is written simultaneously to two disks, to protect against the possible failure of one of them.
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1990 Micro Decision Feb. 45/1 (advt.) Powerful editing operations include associative dimensioning, mirroring, and scaling.
1994 Computing 28 July 18/5 But, as many customers know, mirroring requires two copies of the data to be maintained which doubles to effective L/GB.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
mirroringadj.
/ˈmɪrərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪrərɪŋ/ That reflects in the manner of a mirror. Also figurative, and as the second element in compounds, as sky-mirroring, star-mirroring, etc.
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society > communication > representation > [adjective] > as in a mirror
reflective1624
mirroring1837
1837 M. Shelley Falkner III. iv. 55 The moon was hurrying on among the clouds..and the mirroring ocean was sometimes alive with sparkling silver.
1838 Southern Lit. Messenger Sept. 604/1 Its sky-mirroring waters moved along the thick grass or rippled among the pebbles on its shore.
1846 Amer. Whig Rev. Sept. 304 As still as our star-mirroring lakes.
1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 18 Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring Soul.
1919 W. de la Mare Flora 33 On the mirroring sands Bell-shrill the oyster-catchers.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xix. 440 In the mirroring faces of whatever children they will contemplate old disasters and newer hopes.
1992 New Yorker 28 Sept. 82/3 It could easily have collapsed in performance into fine splinters had it not been for the supporting, mirroring interest of ‘The Nutcracker’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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