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Definition of mimetic
1 : imitative
2 : relating to, characterized by, or exhibiting mimicry mimetic coloring of a butterfly
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Examples of mimetic in a Sentence
boys have a tendency toward mimetic behavior, often imitating their fathers at a fairly early age
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Instead, pornography trains us to redirect sexual desire as mimetic desire.
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The natural world and the mimetic urge?) is part and parcel of a deeper aesthetic.
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His visual descriptions are mimetic—as if the reader’s eye on the page followed a painter’s brush, the falcon reeling and refracted in sunlight painted by Tintoretto, in falling darkness by Rouault.
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The aesthetic identity of the game can be elaborated by collecting fragments or mimetic images.
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Origin and Etymology of mimetic
Late Latin mimeticus, from Greek mimētikos, from mimeisthai to imitate, from mimos mime
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