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mimesis

[mi-mee-sis, mahy-] / mɪˈmi sɪs, maɪ- /




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Issue 2 is also an exercise in mimesis.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018

There was a somewhat belated reaction to the danger of mimesis, and before the close of 1934, most Falangists were denying that they were fascists.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2017

His first work, published in French in 1961 and in English in 1965 as “Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,” introduced the idea of mimesis through readings of classic novels.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015

Never, never in my life before did I dream that dramatic art, poetry, and mimesis could attain to such ideal splendour. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey




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