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| mi·me·sis [ mi mssiss, mī mssiss ] |
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1. art's imitation of life: the imitation of life or nature in the techniques and subject matter of art and literature
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2. biology
Same as mimicry (sense 2)
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3. medicine disease symptoms in healthy person: the occurrence of the symptoms of a disease in somebody who does not have the disease, often produced psychosomatically
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4. rhetorical device: the rhetorical use of what somebody else might have said
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| [Mid-16th century. < Greek mimēsis< mimeisthai "imitate" < mimos "mime"] |
