This is a copy of a photo of a painting. I guess that makes it a third level simulacrum.
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Simulacrum
//ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkɹəm//
Synonyms for "simulacrum" (218 found)
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Closest matches (44)
Strong matches (65)
dissemblingdissimulationdoubledummyduplicateectypeeffecteidolonequivalentersatzexact likenessfacadefacefacetfair copyfaithful copyfakefakementfakeryfaking
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fallaciousnessfalse airfalse appearancefalse frontfalse lightfalse showfalsenessfalsityfashionfeaturefeigningfeintfellowfigureforgeryformfour-flushingframe upframe-upfraudfrontgestaltgiltglossguisehoaxhumbughumbuggeryiconidealizationidolillusionismillusionistillusivenessimageimagoimitationimmaterialityimpostorimpostureimpressionjunkkindred spirit
Related words (109)
lightlikelikenesslineamentsliving imageliving picturelookmagicmagic actmagic showmagicianmannermasqueradematchmatemeretriciousnessminiaturemirroringmockmodel
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near duplicateobverseostentationoutward showparallelpastepasticciopastichependantphasephasisphonyphotographpicturepinchbeckplayactingportraitposeposingpostureprestidigitationpretensepretensionpretextprosperoput onput up jobput-onput-up jobreciprocalreferencereflectionregardrepresentationresemblancerespectringerrip offrip-offrubbingsecond selfseemingsemblanceshadowshamshapeshoddyshowshowingsidesimilitudesimulationsisterslantsleight of handsorcerersorcerysoul matespecious appearancespeciousnessspitspit and imagespitting imagestylesuchsuchlikeswindletallythe like ofthe likes oftinseltotal effecttracetracingtwintwistunactualityunrealityunsubstantialityvarnishvery imagevery pictureviewviewpointwhited sepulcherwindow dressingwise
Noun(2 words)
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Translations
23 translations across 15 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- محاكاة noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Armenian
1 entries- սիմուլակր noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- образ noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- подобие noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Catalan
1 entries- simulacre noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Finnish
3 entries- kuva noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- malli noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- simulakrumi noun (thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities)
French
1 entries- simulacre noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
German
2 entries- Simulacrum noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- Simulakrum noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Greek
2 entries- απείκασμα noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- επίφαση noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Italian
1 entries- simulacro noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Macedonian
3 entries- при́вид noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- при́видност noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- сли́ка noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Polish
2 entries- symulakrum noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
- symulakrum noun (thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities)
Portuguese
1 entries- simulacro noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Romanian
1 entries- simulacru noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- симулакрум noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Spanish
1 entries- simulacro noun (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment
Source: wiktionary
[H]e crossed the haunted Almo, renowned of yore for its healing virtues, and whose stream the far-famed simulacrum, the image of Cybele,) which fell from heaven, was wont to be laved with every coming spring; […]
Source: wiktionary
Is it not strange to reflect, […] that nightly we lay down our gold, to fashion forth simulacra of peasants, in gay ribands and white bodices, singing sweet songs, and bowing gracefully to the picturesque crosses: and all the while the veritable peasants are kneeling, songlessly, to veritable crosses, in another temper than the kind and fair audiences deem of, and assuredly with another kind of answer than is got out of the opera catastrophe; […] If all the gold that has gone to paint the simulacra of the cottages, and to put new songs in the mouths of the simulacra of the peasants, had gone to brighten the existent cottages, and to put new songs in the mouths of the existent peasants, it might in the end, perhaps, have turned out better so, not only for the peasant, but for even the audience.
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