Definitions for imitation

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imitation im·i·ta·tion

Spelling: [im-i-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌɪm ɪˈteɪ ʃən/

Imitation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in imitation (aiiimnott).

Definitions for imitation

noun

1. a result or product of imitating.
2. the act of imitating.
3. a counterfeit; copy.
4. a literary composition that imitates the manner or subject of another author or work.
5. Biology. mimicry.
6. Psychology. the performance of an act whose stimulus is the observation of the act performed by another person.
7. Sociology. the copying of patterns of activity and thought of other groups or individuals.
8. Art. (in Aristotelian aesthetics) the representation of an object or an action as it ought to be. the representation of actuality in art or literature.
9. Music. the repetition of a melodic phrase at a different pitch or key from the original or in a different voice part.

adjective

1. designed to imitate a genuine or superior article or thing:
2. Jewelry. noting an artificial gem no part of which is of the true gemstone. Compare assembled, synthetic (def 5).

Origin of imitation

1350-1400; Middle English Latin imitātiōn- (stem of imitātiō). See imitate, -ion

Examples for imitation

I suggested an imitation of the equipment of the French infantry.

"You 'tend to your own troubles," returned the other, with an imitation of liveliness.

It used to be that we said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, this is high praise.

And so he acted as a child acts, in imitation of what it has seen others do.

We cannot suppose that any one can really mean to exclude all imitation of others.

But now there is new way to see the matter: imitation is a kind of dismissal.

There are Egyptian influences and an imitation Hindu temple.

The very faculty of language is, to a large extent, a matter of imitation.

I am now giving an imitation of yourself in your thrilling drama, "All at Sea."