| 单词 | mimesis |
| 释义 | mimesis (once / 227295 pages) 1n 2n Mimesis is the imitation of life in art and literature. You know your painting exhibits mimesis when the viewers try to pick the flowers from the canvas. You’ve probably heard that life imitates art. Well, when art imitates life, it’s mimesis. Originally a Greek word, meaning “imitation,” mimesis basically means a copycat, or a mimic. Mimesis might be found in a play with a realistic setting or in a particularly life-like statue. The word is also used in biology for a disease that shows characteristics of another illness. You can remember the definition of mimesis by thinking about a mime imitating an action. WORD FAMILYmimesis USAGE EXAMPLESHer newest project explores mimesis, or lifelike replication, in both 15th-century paintings and synthetic biology. Slate(Sep 20, 2016) His objective, it seemed, was to abandon mimesis, the depiction of people and things. The New Yorker(Apr 11, 2016) Online shopping can offer a kind of digital mimesis of these things, but it doesn’t reward consumers in the same way as a physical store. The New Yorker(Feb 03, 2016) 1 1n the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature Hyper imitation the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations 2n the representation of another person's words in a speech 2Hyper citation, quotation, quote a passage or expression that is quoted or cited n any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease Hyper disease an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
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