All mimicry synonyms

noun mimicry

• pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• imitation — a result or product of imitating.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• apery — imitative behaviour; mimicry
• caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
• camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
• parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
• posture — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
• mimesis — Rhetoric. imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of another, as in order to represent his or her character.
• aping — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
• parroting — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
• mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• mimetism — mimicry (defs 1, 3).
• mimicking — to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
• impersonation — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
• impression — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
• simulation — imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• mime — the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.