simulacrum

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  1. noun An image or representation.
  2. noun An unreal or vague semblance.

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  • I was still holding the key in my left hand, and as soon as the simulacrum disappeared, the key stopped tugging me and started getting warm. —  1
  • He didn't look at all like the simulacrum; he was taller, with black hair and tired-looking grey eyes, and he didn't have a beard. —  1
  • A simulacrum, an imperfect, incomplete doppelganger. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 01 - July 1999
  • “Samuel Delany” or a simulacrum thereof is the covert protagonist of this book, and his exemplary character and career carry his observations. —  Asimov'sSF,January2007
  • If we were to re-create Western civilization without that faith, it would be only a soulless simulacrum, a re-animated corpse, with no life-force. —  Vanishing American
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  1. Latin simulācrum (from simulāre, to simulate; see simulate) + -crum, n. suff.

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  1. Latin, a likeness, image, form, appearance, phantom (in philosophy a transitive of Greek ὁμοίωμἀ, from simulare, make like, imitate; see simulate.
 

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