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mimetic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

mimetic (comparative more mimetic, superlative most mimetic)

• Exhibiting mimesis.
  • ✤ No enthusiasm recalled by mimetic art could hold poise with the intensity of the actual exultation of the Athenians on that day when they saw the Persian fleet hacked to pieces in the narrow strait.¹
• Imitative.
  • ✤ This is a planned city, built wholesale from scratch, and coloured with a mimetic sense of humour. Lusail has a replica Place Vendôme. Lusail has a fake Beverly Hills (still under construction).²

Noun

mimetic (plural mimetics)

• Something mimetic or imitative.
• (education) A type of mnemonic in the form of a picture.
• (pharmacology) A substance with similar pharmacological effects as another substance or as a lifestyle intervention such as diet or exercise.
  • ✤ *caloric restriction mimetic *
  • ✤ *exercise mimetic *
  • ✤ *serotonin mimetic *

Etymology

From Latin mīmēticus or its etymon Ancient Greek μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”).³ By surface analysis, mime +‎ -etic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪˈmɛtɪk/, /məˈmɛtɪk/, /ˌmaɪˈmɛtɪk/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk
• Homophone: memetic (some accents)

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Footnotes

1. 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 71: ↩

2. 2022 November 27, Barney Ronay, “Welcome to Lusail: Lego-city of the gods and one of the strangest places on earth”, in The Guardian ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

3. “mimetic, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

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