Definitions
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- n. the state of being imitative; imitation
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character or quality of being imitative.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Still it would not be fair to speak in these terms of praise without pointing out the transparent imitativeness which is common to all these poems.
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Narrowing the process down to impersonation should make clear that Plato finds a Sophist's imitativeness much like a poet's.
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From pure imitativeness he jeers at things which in fact he believes in.
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Imitation of models (unlike unconscious, unperceived, spontaneous influences by one society on another) leads to arti - ficiality, feeble imitativeness, degraded art and life.
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The imitativeness of the young child is so great that he will repeat in almost every detail all the actions of his nurse as she carries out the daily routine.
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Doll, child's care of, an example of imitativeness educative value of
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At the age, then, of two or three the first quality of the child which may arrest our attention is his extreme imitativeness.
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We may pass from considering the imitativeness of the child to study a second and closely related quality, his suggestibility.
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Speech, beginnings of facility with which local accent is acquired imitativeness of infant's reasoning power present before advent of influence of nurses and mothers on tone and manner of
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Action, imitativeness of liberty of, in early childhood
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