Counterimitation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of counterimitating. countable, uncountable

    "Rightist subcultures revel in the “bad taste” of guns, fast food, and un-PC jokes—a counterimitation of effete cosmopolitans that effete cosmopolitans are unlikely to embrace."

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"Rightist subcultures revel in the “bad taste” of guns, fast food, and un-PC jokes—a counterimitation of effete cosmopolitans that effete cosmopolitans are unlikely to embrace."

Etymology

From counter- + imitation.

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