mimetically
- adverb
- /mɪˈmɛtɪkli/
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miméticamente
- The children imitated the animal sounds mimetically, making each noise perfectly like the creatures they were copying.
- rendered mimetically
- mimetically reproduced
- discourse, but enacted mimetically
Examples
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In the theater, the actors performed mimetically, capturing the essence and mannerisms of their characters.
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The artist painted mimetically, replicating the scene with such detail that it looked like a photograph.
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Thus, Strap's speech is usually rendered mimetically because it relies on external authority.
Academic text (1990) -
But these attempts to explain the father mimetically depend just as much on supposition as did those of Jeremias.
Academic text (1992) -
Men and women in Falcon's theater, whether represented mimetically or diegetically, are always conceived as binary opposites.
Academic text (1997) -
Thus, Girard's concept of mimetic desire helps us to see how the concepts of vulnerability and insecurity are mimetically constructed.
Academic text (2007) -
Indeed, when off-the-record discourse is mimetically reproduced orally as gossip, it retains this essential feature.
Academic text (2001) -
In this part, the narrator mixes together the fictive protagonist Tereza with a quite accurate, mimetically referring description grounded in the actual world of Prague.
Academic text (2006)
How Imitative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mimetically comes from the Greek root mim- meaning 'to imitate', the same root you see in mime and mimic. So, to act mimetically is to copy or behave like someone or something else.