MIMESIS Definition & Meaning

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mimesis

[ mi-mee-sis, mahy- ]

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noun

Rhetoric. imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of someone else, as in order to represent their character.
(in literature, film, art, etc.)
1. imitation of the real world, as by re-creating instances of human action and events or portraying objects found in nature:
  This movie is a mimesis of historical events.
2. the showing of a story, as by dialogue and enactment of events. Compare diegesis ( def 1 ).
Biology. imitation ( def 5 ).
Zoology. mimicry ( def 2 ).
Also . Pathology.
1. the simulation, due to hysteria, of the symptoms of a disease.
2. the simulation of the symptoms of one disease by another.

mimesis

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noun

art literature the imitative representation of nature or human behaviour
1. any disease that shows symptoms of another disease
2. a condition in a hysterical patient that mimics an organic disease
biology another name for mimicry
rhetoric representation of another person's alleged words in a speech

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of mimesis¹

First recorded in 1540–50; from Greek ��ī́��ŧ�� “imitation,” equivalent to ��ī��ŧ- (variant stem of ��ī��î��ٳ󲹾� “to copy”) + -sis noun suffix ( -sis )

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of mimesis¹

C16: from Greek, from mimeisthai to imitate

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Issue 2 is also an exercise in mimesis.

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The monotonous, methodical climbs in Death Stranding resemble their real-life counterparts in absolute mimesis, at least atmospherically.

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Watson concludes that “this is mimesis at its finest”; the semicolons hold the prose “in suspension,” and the reader in suspense, waiting, along with King, for justice.

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On the most basic level there is clearly a degree of mimesis at work.

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I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.

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