Counterimitate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To react to another person by refraining from doing what they do; to deliberately not imitate.
"The pressures of status give every individual a set of conflicting demands: imitate the group norms, counterimitate rivals, emulate superiors but not too obviously, and be unique but not too unique."
Example
More examples"The pressures of status give every individual a set of conflicting demands: imitate the group norms, counterimitate rivals, emulate superiors but not too obviously, and be unique but not too unique."
Etymology
From counter- + imitate.
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