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Definition of simulacrum in English: simulacrumnounPlural simulacra, Plural simulacrums ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkrəm 1An image or representation of someone or something. a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper Example sentencesExamples - Anything for a ‘feel good’ image, for a simulacrum, in these postmodern times
- A buffalo skull tucked in the corner compresses the painting's message into a single object, a simulacrum for the Old West.
- Despite the obvious codes of virtuality at play, of simulation and simulacra, the image works.
- Painted kite tails, assemblages, photo and film documentation, and an electronic simulacrum of kite-flying were recently on view in a New York gallery
- With surgery, he makes clear, one becomes merely a simulacrum or copy; true identity is masked with the inevitable result that one is, ultimately, inauthentic.
Synonyms likeness, painting, drawing, picture, portrait, illustration, sketch, diagram, artist's impression - 1.1 An unsatisfactory imitation or substitute.
a bland simulacrum of American soul music Example sentencesExamples - They are pop cultural simulacra, mere shadows of Cagney's tragic anti-hero and Marlon Brando's brooding Don.
- They are mere simulacra, which replace real things and their actual relationships (only truly known to those on the left, who see through such illusions) in a process which Baudrillard calls hyperrealization.
- But then along comes a texture, timbre or pattern that is simply too frog-like or insect-like to be dismissed as a mere electronic simulacrum.
- Unlike France, the United States has never had a publicly defined national curriculum - although we seem to have allowed private enterprise to define a thoroughly unsatisfactory simulacrum of one.
- Heavily shaped by the generation of the 1960s, most of us may become mere simulacrums of our mentors.
- Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.
- How it must wound the director to hear these words in Hollywood, on a mere back-lot simulacrum of New York - and from his own ex-wife!
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin, from simulare (see simulate). Definition of simulacrum in US English: simulacrumnoun 1An image or representation of someone or something. a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper Example sentencesExamples - With surgery, he makes clear, one becomes merely a simulacrum or copy; true identity is masked with the inevitable result that one is, ultimately, inauthentic.
- Painted kite tails, assemblages, photo and film documentation, and an electronic simulacrum of kite-flying were recently on view in a New York gallery
- Anything for a ‘feel good’ image, for a simulacrum, in these postmodern times
- Despite the obvious codes of virtuality at play, of simulation and simulacra, the image works.
- A buffalo skull tucked in the corner compresses the painting's message into a single object, a simulacrum for the Old West.
Synonyms likeness, painting, drawing, picture, portrait, illustration, sketch, diagram, artist's impression - 1.1 An unsatisfactory imitation or substitute.
a bland simulacrum of American soul music Example sentencesExamples - How it must wound the director to hear these words in Hollywood, on a mere back-lot simulacrum of New York - and from his own ex-wife!
- They are mere simulacra, which replace real things and their actual relationships (only truly known to those on the left, who see through such illusions) in a process which Baudrillard calls hyperrealization.
- They are pop cultural simulacra, mere shadows of Cagney's tragic anti-hero and Marlon Brando's brooding Don.
- Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.
- Unlike France, the United States has never had a publicly defined national curriculum - although we seem to have allowed private enterprise to define a thoroughly unsatisfactory simulacrum of one.
- Heavily shaped by the generation of the 1960s, most of us may become mere simulacrums of our mentors.
- But then along comes a texture, timbre or pattern that is simply too frog-like or insect-like to be dismissed as a mere electronic simulacrum.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin, from simulare (see simulate). |