Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as mimesis, and mimicry, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) Same as mimicry.

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  • noun biology mimicry

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek to mimic.

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Examples

  • By a kind of mimetism the connective cells of the peritoneum had taken on the aspect of muscular fibres.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • I don't say, indeed, that my curate would indulge in this affectation, for he is rather disposed to take the old, unlearned modes of saving souls and going with them to Heaven, than the new, brilliant mimetism of

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • Whatever happens, this extraordinary event -- which is a miracle, as a popular uprising always is, and which was endowed under this circumstance with the blind mimetism and un-self-consciousness that is peculiar to the Angel of History when it thinks it is going forward, but is actually looking backward -- will seem to have reproduced topsy-turvy the very scene in the same streets, surrounding the same barracks and the same shops, that was described thirty years ago by Michel Foucault, who never imagined that the real revolution was still to come, and that it would be the exact opposite of what he described.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • This revelation is even clearer because the text is a work on desire and violence, from the serpent setting alight the desire of Eve in paradise to the prodigious strength of the mimetism that brings about the denial of Peter during the Passion (Mark 14: 66-72; Luke

    theophiles.org 2010

  • This revelation is even clearer because the text is a work on desire and violence, from the serpent setting alight the desire of Eve in paradise to the prodigious strength of the mimetism that brings about the denial of Peter during the Passion (Mark 14: 66-72; Luke

    theophiles.org 2010

  • This revelation is even clearer because the text is a work on desire and violence, from the serpent setting alight the desire of Eve in paradise to the prodigious strength of the mimetism that brings about the denial of Peter during the Passion (Mark 14: 66-72; Luke

    theophiles.org 2010

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