ALL meanings of imitation
im·i·ta·tion
I i - noun imitation copy, counterfeit 1
- noun imitation mimicry, copying 1
- adjective imitation gems, fur: fake 1
- noun imitation a result or product of imitating. 1
- noun imitation the act of imitating. 1
- noun imitation a counterfeit; copy. 1
- noun imitation a literary composition that imitates the manner or subject of another author or work. 1
- noun imitation Biology. mimicry. 1
- noun imitation Psychology. the performance of an act whose stimulus is the observation of the act performed by another person. 1
- noun imitation Sociology. the copying of patterns of activity and thought of other groups or individuals. 1
- noun imitation Art. (in Aristotelian aesthetics) the representation of an object or an action as it ought to be. the representation of actuality in art or literature. 1
- noun imitation Music. the repetition of a melodic phrase at a different pitch or key from the original or in a different voice part. 1
- adjective imitation designed to imitate a genuine or superior article or thing: imitation leather. 1
- adjective imitation Jewelry. noting an artificial gem no part of which is of the true gemstone. Compare assembled, synthetic (def 5). 1
- noun imitation A thing intended to simulate or copy something else. 1
- noun imitation A copy. 0
- noun imitation (attributive) not the real thing. 0
- countable noun imitation An imitation of something is a copy of it. 0
- uncountable noun imitation Imitation means copying someone else's actions. 0
- adjective imitation Imitation things are not genuine but are made to look as if they are. 0
- countable noun imitation If someone does an imitation of another person, they copy the way they speak or behave, sometimes in order to be funny. 0
- noun imitation the act, practice, or art of imitating; mimicry 0
- noun imitation an instance or product of imitating, such as a copy of the manner of a person; impression 0
- noun imitation a copy or reproduction of a genuine article; counterfeit 0
- noun imitation (as modifier) 0
- noun imitation (in contrapuntal or polyphonic music) the repetition of a phrase or figure in one part after its appearance in another, as in a fugue 0
- noun imitation a literary composition that adapts the style of an older work to the writer's own purposes 0
- noun imitation the act of imitating 0
- noun imitation the result or product of imitating; artificial likeness; copy 0
- noun imitation a counterfeit 0
- noun imitation mimicry (sense 2) 0
- noun imitation the repetition in close succession of a theme or theme fragment in a different voice: used often as a technique of counterpoint 0
- noun imitation in Platonism, the process wherein sensible objects imperfectly embody unchanging, immaterial models or archetypes 0
- noun imitation in Aristotelianism, artistic portrayal not as literal copying but as representation of the essential nature of something 0
- adjective imitation made to resemble something specified, usually something superior or genuine; not real; sham; bogus 0