What's The Definition Of Imitation?
[n] copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
[n] a copy that is represented as the original
[n] the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
[n] a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
[adj] artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "coffee substitute"
[adj] not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated aligator hide"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Imitation: artificial |
caricature |
counterfeit |
ersatz |
fake |
false |
faux |
forgery |
impersonation |
simulated |
substitute(p) |
unreal
Related Terms | Find terms related to Imitation: accordance |
acting |
adoption |
affected |
agent |
agreement |
alike |
alikeness |
alliance |
alternate |
alternative |
analogy |
aped |
aping |
apocryphal |
approach |
appropriation |
approximation |
artificial |
assimilation |
assumed |
assumption |
backup |
bastard |
bogus |
borrowed plumes |
brummagem |
burlesque |
caricature |
certified copy |
change |
changeling |
characterization |
cheat |
clinquant |
closeness |
colorable |
colored |
community |
comparability |
comparison |
conduplication |
conformity |
consimilar |
copied |
copy |
copying |
correspondence |
counterfeit |
counterfeited |
counterpart |
deputy |
derivation |
deriving |
distorted |
double |
doubling |
dressed up |
dumb show |
dummy |
duplicate |
duplication |
echo |
ectype |
embellished |
embodiment |
embroidered |
emulation |
enacting |
enactment |
equal |
equivalent |
ersatz |
exchange |
facsimile |
factitious |
fair copy |
faithful copy |
fake |
faked |
fakement |
false |
falsified |
farce |
favoring |
feigned |
fictitious |
fictive |
fill-in |
following |
forged |
forgery |
frame-up |
fraud |
garbled |
gemination |
ghost |
ghostwriter |
hoax |
hokey |
homogeneous |
icon |
identical |
identity |
illegitimate |
image |
imitated |
impersonating |
impersonation |
impostor |
impression |
incarnation |
infringement |
ingemination |
iteration |
junk |
junky |
knockoff |
lampoon |
like |
likeness |
likening |
locum tenens |
make-believe |
makeshift |
man-made |
masquerade |
metaphor |
metonymy |
mimesis |
mimicked |
mimicking |
mimicry |
miming |
mock |
mockery |
mocking |
mock-up |
model |
nearly reproduced |
nearness |
next best thing |
not unlike |
palingenesis |
pantomime |
pantomiming |
parallelism |
paraphrase |
parity |
parody |
paste |
pasticcio |
pastiche |
performance |
performing |
personation |
personification |
personnel |
perverted |
phony |
picture |
pinch |
pinch hitter |
pinchbeck |
pirating |
plagiarism |
plagiarized |
plagiary |
playing |
portrait |
portrayal |
posing |
pretended |
provisional |
proxy |
pseudo |
put-on |
put-up job |
quasi |
queer |
quotation |
reappearance |
rebirth |
rebuilding |
reconstitution |
reconstruction |
re-creation |
recurrence |
redesign |
redoing |
redoubling |
reduplication |
reecho |
reedition |
reestablishment |
refashioning |
re-formation |
regeneration |
regenesis |
regurgitation |
reincarnation |
reinstitution |
reissue |
reiteration |
relief |
remaking |
renascence |
renewal |
renovation |
reoccurrence |
reorganization |
repetition |
replacement |
replica |
replication |
representation |
representative |
reprinting |
reproduction |
resemblance |
resembling |
reserve |
reserves |
reshaping |
restoration |
restructuring |
resumption |
resurrection |
return |
revision |
revival |
ringer |
rip-off |
sameness |
satire |
second string |
secondary |
self-styled |
semblance |
sham |
shoddy |
sign |
similar |
similarity |
simile |
similitude |
simulacrum |
simulated |
simulation |
smacking of |
so-called |
soi-disant |
something like |
spare |
spares |
spurious |
squib |
stand-in |
stopgap |
sub |
substituent |
substitute |
substitution |
succedaneum |
suggestive of |
superseder |
supplanter |
supposititious |
surrogate |
swindle |
symbol |
synecdoche |
synthetic |
takeoff |
take-off |
taking |
temporary |
tentative |
third string |
tin |
tinsel |
titivated |
token |
travesty |
twinning |
twisted |
unauthentic |
understudy |
ungenuine |
uniform with |
unnatural |
unreal |
utility |
utility player |
version |
vicar |
vicarious |
vice-president |
vice-regent |
warped |
whited sepulcher |
wicked imitation
See Also | burlesque |
charade |
copy |
copying |
doctrine |
emulation |
fake |
humor |
humour |
ism |
lampoon |
mimesis |
mimicry |
mockery |
parody |
pasquinade |
philosophy |
postiche |
put-on |
school of thought |
sendup |
sham |
spoof |
takeoff |
travesty |
wit |
witticism |
wittiness
Imitation In Webster's Dictionary
\Im"i*ta"tion\, n. [L. imitatio: cf. F. imitation.]
1. The act of imitating.
Poesy is an art of imitation, . . . that is to say,
a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
2. That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is
made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or
for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
Both these arts are not only true imitations of
nature, but of the best nature. --Dryden.
3. (Mus.) One of the principal means of securing unity and
consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of
essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on
different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other
parts of voises. Cf. {Canon}.
4. (Biol.) The act of condition of imitating another species
of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See {Imitate},
v. t., 3.
Note: Imitation is often used adjectively to characterize
things which have a deceptive appearance, simulating
the qualities of a superior article; -- opposed to
{real} or {genuine}; as, imitation lace; imitation
bronze; imitation modesty, etc.
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