memetic
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- adjective
- /məˈmɛtɪk/
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- Poets, tragedians are memetic artists, as are portrait painters.
- memetic engineering
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So social media has given us millions of memetic models that we now have to contend with.
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There may well be some such effect that is important, but I want to make the case that there might also be a purely memetic explanation of the origin of music.
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And I find Instagram creates all this memetic desire in me for stuff.
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So the memetic desire is like step one of Gerard's theory.
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We may conclude that the scope for memetic explanation of the development of scripts is, at best, limited.
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I'm sort of a memetic free marketeer: I believe that the more open and free the debate is, the better solutions emerge.
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A meme stock is kind of a new term for these stocks that catch memetic momentum on Reddit.
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We can use Darwin's three levels of genetic selection, plus our own fourth level, genetic engineering, as a model for four parallel levels of memetic selection in human culture.
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Which is what makes cats so important as a memetic medium—their popularity and ubiquity lend them infinite plasticity.
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The viral video generated a huge amount of memetic content across various social media platforms.
Synonyms
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Showing that something copies the look or behavior of another thing
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Etymology
Memetic comes from meme, a modern word made from a Greek idea meaning 'something imitated', just like the word mimic, and the ending -etic means 'related to'. So memetic describes things that spread by copying, especially online, like a catchphrase or a funny image.