mimetic
adjective
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Definition of mimetic
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Synonyms & Antonyms for mimetic
Synonyms
apish, canned, emulative, epigonic (or epigonous), formulaic, imitative, mimic, slavish, unoriginal
Antonyms
archetypal (also archetypical), original
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Fiction often attempts to capture reality without being coldly mimetic; taxidermy reveals the stakes of that project. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, "Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time," 21 Aug. 2019 There is a long-standing argument regarding how far mimetic art ought to go in representing the sometimes dispiriting realities of modern life. — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, "Mallo My!," 10 Mar. 2019 This phenomenon has also been called mimetic architecture â a buildingâs design mimicked its function or a product associated with the building. — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, "From big oranges to bears, readers recall roadside gems," 16 June 2019 This cycle of mimetic exhibitionism holds even for metaphysical things like moral values, which in a world colonized by capitalism have become a wearable commodity. — Susan Crawford, WIRED, "Mark Zuckerberg Plays the Scapegoat for Our Facebook Sins," 17 Apr. 2018 Ashberyâs poemsâcerebral and spectral, equal parts brain and spiritârefuse to summon a mimetic picture of the world — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, "John Ashberyâs Convex Mirror," 4 Sep. 2017 In that respect, painters held the mimetic advantage, and a lot of nineteenth-century painting, from Turner and Constable through the Impressionists, tries to capture the momentary and the evanescent, the sense of life suspended in motion. — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, "The Majesty of Early Photography," 24 Jan. 2017 The natural world and the mimetic urge?) is part and parcel of a deeper aesthetic. — Leah Hager Cohen, New York Times, "Insects Falling on Books, and Other Tales of Unsettling Trespasses," 9 June 2017 His visual descriptions are mimeticâas if the readerâs eye on the page followed a painterâs brush, the falcon reeling and refracted in sunlight painted by Tintoretto, in falling darkness by Rouault. — Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, "Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Bakerâs âThe Peregrineâ," 14 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mimetic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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mimetic
adjective
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