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mimetic
[mi-met-ik, mahy-]
adjective
characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry.
mimetic gestures.
mimic or make-believe.
mimetic
/ ɪˈɛɪ /
adjective
of, resembling, or relating to mimesis or imitation, as in art, etc
biology of or exhibiting mimicry
Other 51Թ Forms
- mimetically adverb
- nonmimetic adjective
- nonmimetically adverb
- unmimetic adjective
- unmimetically adverb
- ˈپ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Prince, a professor in Waterloo's Department of Chemical Engineering, utilized these human-tissue mimetic hydrogels to promote the growth of small-scale tumour replicas derived from donated tumour tissue.
The tune was jaunty, full of the cantering rhythms and mimetic horn calls that fit a song about hunting.
At some level, it really, really means that this spoken system and even sign system that we do needs the mimetic system that we create when we gesture.
But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.
The building block of the internet is a referential, signifying, mimetic, poetics.
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