Synonyms for "mimesis" (47 found)

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Closest matches (10)

onomatopoeiaactingbuffoonerybusinesscharacterizationcounterfeitingdumb showembodimentenactmentfakery

Strong matches (14)

followingforgerygaghamhokehokumimitationimpersonationimpostureimpressionincarnationmasquerademimicrymiming

Related words (23)

mirroringmummerypantomimeparodypatterperformanceperformingpersonationpersonificationplagiarismplayactingplayingportrayalposingprojectionrepetitionrepresentationsimulationslapstickstage presence

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stunttakeoff

Noun(1 words)

onomatopoeia

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

5 entries

citationdiseaseimitationquotationquote

Related terms

2 entries

memememetic

derived

10 entries

andromimesisbiomimesisethnomimesisgynemimesismimeographymimeticmimicryneuromimesispsychotomimesisthanatomimesis

has context

3 entries

biologymedicinerhetoric

is a

3 entries

diseaseimitationquotation

part of

1 entries

hysteria

related to

15 entries

actionappearanceartaspectsdiseasehumanimitationliteraturemimicrypedagogypresentrealrepresentationsymptomworld

Translations

13 translations across 11 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries

• мимезис noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Catalan

1 entries

• mimesi noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

French

2 entries

• mimèse noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)
• mimèsis noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Galician

1 entries

• mimese noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

German

1 entries

• Mimesis noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Italian

2 entries

• mimesi noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)
• mimesis noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Occitan

1 entries

• mimèsi noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Polish

1 entries

• mimesis noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Spanish

1 entries

• mimesis noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Tagalog

1 entries

• gagad noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Turkish

1 entries

• mimesis noun (the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

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