Simulacrum

/ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkɹəm/

Synonyms for "simulacrum" (220 found)

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cultural simulacrumhyperreal simulacrummass media simulacrumpolitical simulacrumpostmodern simulacrumsimulacrum of reality

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This is a copy of a photo of a painting. I guess that makes it a third level simulacrum.

Source: tatoeba (901915)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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