as in imitative
using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model
boys have a tendency toward mimetic behavior, often imitating their fathers at a fairly early age
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Underneath it all, the mimetic mechanism is whirring, biding its time between crises.
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Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
Praise, though often hyperbolic or even mimetic, is more easily and leisurely measured out.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
Girard drew from his early-career studies of literary figures such as Proust the insight that desire is essentially imitative (or mimetic) rather than straightforwardly directed toward its apparent objects.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Driving through its absurd, gigantic fiberglass doughnut — a pristine example of mimetic architecture — is a brief, giddy and almost spiritual experience.
—Tejal Rao, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
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Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
Praise, though often hyperbolic or even mimetic, is more easily and leisurely measured out.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
Girard drew from his early-career studies of literary figures such as Proust the insight that desire is essentially imitative (or mimetic) rather than straightforwardly directed toward its apparent objects.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Driving through its absurd, gigantic fiberglass doughnut — a pristine example of mimetic architecture — is a brief, giddy and almost spiritual experience.
—Tejal Rao, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
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“Mimetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mimetic. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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