IMITATEcopying the movements or appearance of someone or something else 模仿的,模拟的;拟态的
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mimetic• A mimeticbutterfly is one that resembles another kind of butterfly-usually a poisonous one.• The Formalists evaluateliterary form for its perceptibility and not for its mimeticcapacity.• No, M' lud, we hold that it would have an emetic, not a mimetic, effect on any reader.• And, conversely, does mimetic illusionism-the anthropomorphic statue-always fail as art?• In addition, hosts in sympatry were less likely to reject a mimeticmodelegg than a non-mimetic one.• For example, does the precision of mimeticpatterns in butterflies reflect the degree of protection they confer.• Nathalie Sarraute's novels could be claimed to displayautonomy and reflexivity, despite her preoccupation with such a mimeticproject.• Indeed Bratby's and Diebenkorn's works are stylistically closer to Expressionism than to mimeticrealism.
Originmimetic
(1600-1700)Greekmimetikos, from mimeisthai“to copy”