Definitions for mimesis

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mimesis mi·me·sis

Spelling: [mi-mee-sis, mahy-]

IPA: /mɪˈmi sɪs, maɪ-/

Mimesis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in mimesis (eiimmss).

Definitions for mimesis

noun

1. Rhetoric. imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of another, as in order to represent his or her character.
2. imitation of the real world, as by re-creating instances of human action and events or portraying objects found in nature: the showing of a story, as by dialogue and enactment of events. Compare diegesis.
3. Biology. imitation.
4. Zoology. mimicry.
5. Also, mimosis. Pathology. the simulation, due to hysteria, of the symptoms of a disease. the simulation of the symptoms of one disease by another.

Origin of mimesis

1540-50; Greek mī́mēsis ‘imitation’, equivalent to mīmē- (variant stem of mīmeîsthai ‘to copy’) + -sis -sis

Examples for mimesis

Even Plato, the supposed father of idealism, does not make the mimesis absolutely unreal.

The habit of this mimesis of the thing desired, is set up, and ritual begins.

What they felt was not mimesis but “participation,” unity, and community.

Now go and practice your mimesis in order to receive a welcome from the Anthophora or the Chalicodoma!

Never, never in my life before did I dream that dramatic art, poetry, and mimesis could attain to such ideal splendour.

The enemy that eats you is not the only one to be deceived; mimesis must also play its colour-tricks on him whom you have to eat.

Neither Plato nor Mr. Emerson recognizes any causative force in the mimesis.