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Definition of mimetic in English: mimeticadjective mɪˈmɛtɪkmʌɪˈmɛtɪkməˈmɛdɪk technical, formal Relating to, constituting, or habitually practising mimesis. mimetic patterns in butterflies Example sentencesExamples - Among the several biological mimetic systems, cyclodextrins represent one of the most simple ones.
- It's easier to write mimetic fiction, in which everything's set in this world just the way it is, than to change things with the conviction that'll keep people walking with you and believing.
- To convey it, Velazquez passed beyond mimetic rendering to composing with signs of identity when he pictured the Lady with a Fan.
- Their mimetic intention, unlike that of most mimetic art, does not depend on images in the viewer's memory.
- In the standard Western division of genres, mimetic resemblance is the first criterion of portraiture.
Synonyms simulated, mock, imitation, make-believe, sham, imitative
Derivatives adverb formal, technical At such times, the neutral, philosophical mode mimetically reproduces Ronsard's earlier pacifistic promotion of a unified France. Example sentencesExamples - Nor do they use color mimetically, symbolically, metaphorically, or even emotively.
- The staff stands for Aaron and his power without mimetically representing him, as the painting seems paradoxically to observe the Hebraic ethos of iconoclasm that the Jewish leader first violated.
- But there is a price for this defensive sequestration of self-identity: the overall scheme of performance, if seemingly based on popular cultural practices, is mimetically defined by experts.
- But the argument against poets and mimesis is made not only poetically but also mimetically.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Greek mimētikos 'imitation', from mimeisthai 'to imitate'. Rhymes aesthetic (US esthetic), alphabetic, anaesthetic (US anesthetic), antithetic, apathetic, apologetic, arithmetic, ascetic, athletic, balletic, bathetic, cosmetic, cybernetic, diabetic, dietetic, diuretic, electromagnetic, emetic, energetic, exegetic, frenetic, genetic, Helvetic, hermetic, homiletic, kinetic, magnetic, metic, parenthetic, pathetic, peripatetic, phonetic, photosynthetic, poetic, prophetic, prothetic, psychokinetic, splenetic, sympathetic, syncretic, syndetic, synthetic, telekinetic, theoretic, zetetic Definition of mimetic in US English: mimeticadjectiveməˈmedikməˈmɛdɪk formal, technical Relating to, constituting, or habitually practicing mimesis. mimetic patterns in butterflies Example sentencesExamples - In the standard Western division of genres, mimetic resemblance is the first criterion of portraiture.
- Among the several biological mimetic systems, cyclodextrins represent one of the most simple ones.
- It's easier to write mimetic fiction, in which everything's set in this world just the way it is, than to change things with the conviction that'll keep people walking with you and believing.
- To convey it, Velazquez passed beyond mimetic rendering to composing with signs of identity when he pictured the Lady with a Fan.
- Their mimetic intention, unlike that of most mimetic art, does not depend on images in the viewer's memory.
Synonyms simulated, mock, imitation, make-believe, sham, imitative
Origin Mid 17th century: from Greek mimētikos ‘imitation’, from mimeisthai ‘to imitate’. |