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Simulacrum

//ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkɹəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.

    "a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment"

  2. 2
    a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) wordnet
  3. 3
    A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation; a semblance.

    "One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore! It were well for us to live not as fools and simulacra, but as wise and realities."

  4. 4
    an insubstantial or vague semblance wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), from simul(ā) + -crum (a variant of -culum, from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns), from similis (“similar (to)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).

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