Mimicry synonyms

mĭm'ĭ-krē

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mockery
A person or thing receiving or deserving ridicule
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mime
The definition of a mime is a performer who expresses himself using body movements and no words.
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pretense
Intention or purpose not real but professed.
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parody (related)
(Music) The practice of reworking an already established composition, especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other works, such as motets or madrigals.
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mimetic
Using imitative means of representation:
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mimical
(Now rare) Imitative; that mimics something else.
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echo
A repetition or an imitation:
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euphemize
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extenuate
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imitation
(Music) The repetition in close succession of a theme or theme fragment in a different voice: used often as a technique of counterpoint
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impersonation
The act of impersonating
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mimesis
(Rhetoric) The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.
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mimetism
(Biology) mimicry
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mimicking
Mimicry
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minimize
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mocking
Action of the verb to mock
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moderate
One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.
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pastiche
(Uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
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posture
An attitude or way of behaving, especially when adopted to have an effect on others:
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refine
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restrain
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strut
A brace fitted into a framework to resist pressure in the direction of its length and thereby stabilize a structure
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aping
The act, practice, or art of copying the manner or expression of another
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same (related)
Someone or something previously mentioned or described:
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aggressive mimicry batesian mimicry müllerian mimicry (related)
The resemblance of one organism to another or to an object in its surroundings for concealment or protection from predators.
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apery
A silly or mischievous act
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parrotry
Servile imitation or repetition
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batesian (related)
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mullerian (related)
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onomatopoeic
Having the property of onomatopoeia.
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camouflage
Cloth, netting, or other material used for camouflage:
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caricature
A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
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dice
(Uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.
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Find another word for mimicry. In this page you can discover 34 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mimicry, like: mockery, mime, pretense, parody, echoic, mimetic, mimical, echo, euphemize, extenuate and imitation.
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Mimicry Sentence Examples

  • A few cases of mimicry have been recorded in birds.

  • The mimicry of these insects therefore is synaposematic; but some, at all events, of the flies like the Bombylid Exoprosopa umbrosa, probably form pseudaposematic elements in the group. Into another category Hymenoptera enter not as models but as mimics, the models being inedible Malacodermatous beetles mostly belonging to the genus Lycus and characterized by orange coloration set off by a large black patch upon the posterior end of the elytra and a smaller black spot upon the thorax.

  • The results of this experiment with the baboon and of those with the birds are precisely what would be expected if the theory of mimicry is true.

  • Some observations, however, of Guy Marshall on the inedibility of certain birds suggest that the resemblance between cuckoos a'nd hawks on the one hand and cuckoos and drongos on the other may be susceptible of another explanation in full agreement with the theory of mimicry as propounded by Bates.

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