mimesis

From Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis), from μιμεῖσθαι (mimeîsthai, “to imitate”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “a mime”).

• enPR: mĭmē′səs
• IPA^(key): /mɪˈmiːsɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

mimesis (countable and uncountable, plural mimeses)

1. The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
2. (biology) Mimicry.
3. (medicine) The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present.
4. (rhetoric) The rhetorical pedagogy of imitation.
5. (rhetoric) The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.

• mimetic
• mimicry

• meme
• memetic

• Silva Rhetoricae

• mimsies

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmimesis/, [ˈmime̞s̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -imesis
• Syllabification^(key): mi‧me‧sis
• Hyphenation^(key): mi‧me‧sis

mimesis

1. (art, rhetoric) mimesis

• “mimesis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /mi.mɛ.zis/ ~ /mi.me.zis/

mimesis f (plural mimesis)

1. alternative form of mimèse

Learned borrowing from Latin mīmēsis, from Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis).

• IPA^(key): /miˈmɛ.sis/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛsis
• Syllabification: mi‧me‧sis

mimesis f (indeclinable)

1. (art, literature) mimesis (representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

• mimesis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mimesis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /miˈmesis/ [miˈme.sis]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: mi‧me‧sis

mimesis f (plural mimesis)

1. mimesis

• “mimesis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024