 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
imitation
adjective: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine
article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic
fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with
imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator
hide" [syn: {fake}, {false}, {faux}, {simulated}]
noun
1: the doctrine that representations of nature or human
behavior should be accurate imitations [ant: {formalism}]
2: a copy that is represented as the original [syn: {counterfeit},
{forgery}]
3: copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
4: a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic
effect [syn: {caricature}, {impersonation}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imitation \Im"i*ta"tion\, noun [L. imitatio: cf. F. imitation.]
1. The act of imitating.
Poesy is an art of imitation, . . . that is to say,
a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
2. That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is
made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or
for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
Both these arts are not only true imitations of
nature, but of the best nature. --Dryden.
3. (Mus.) One of the principal means of securing unity and
consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of
essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on
different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other
parts of voises. Cf. {Canon}.
4. (Biol.) The act of condition of imitating another species
of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See {Imitate},
verb (used with an object), 3.
Note: Imitation is often used adjectively to characterize
things which have a deceptive appearance, simulating
the qualities of a superior article; -- opposed to
{real} or {genuine}; as, imitation lace; imitation
bronze; imitation modesty, etc.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
302 Moby Thesaurus words for "imitation":
accordance, acting, adoption, affected, agent, agreement, alike,
alikeness, alliance, alternate, alternative, analogy, aped, aping,
apocryphal, approach, appropriation, approximation, artificial,
assimilation, assumed, assumption, backup, bastard, bogus,
borrowed plumes, brummagem, burlesque, caricature, certified copy,
change, changeling, characterization, cheat, clinquant, closeness,
colorable, colored, community, comparability, comparison,
conduplication, conformity, consimilar, copied, copy, copying,
correspondence, counterfeit, counterfeited, counterpart, deputy,
derivation, deriving, distorted, double, doubling, dressed up,
dumb show, dummy, duplicate, duplication, echo, ectype,
embellished, embodiment, embroidered, emulation, enacting,
enactment, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, facsimile,
factitious, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, faked, fakement, false,
falsified, farce, favoring, feigned, fictitious, fictive, fill-in,
following, forged, forgery, frame-up, fraud, garbled, gemination,
ghost, ghostwriter, hoax, hokey, homogeneous, icon, identical,
identity, illegitimate, image, imitated, impersonating,
impersonation, impostor, impression, incarnation, infringement,
ingemination, iteration, junk, junky, knockoff, lampoon, like,
likeness, likening, locum tenens, make-believe, makeshift,
man-made, masquerade, metaphor, metonymy, mimesis, mimicked,
mimicking, mimicry, miming, mock, mock-up, mockery, mocking, model,
nearly reproduced, nearness, next best thing, not unlike,
palingenesis, pantomime, pantomiming, parallelism, paraphrase,
parity, parody, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, performance,
performing, personation, personification, personnel, perverted,
phony, picture, pinch, pinch hitter, pinchbeck, pirating,
plagiarism, plagiarized, plagiary, playing, portrait, portrayal,
posing, pretended, provisional, proxy, pseudo, put-on, put-up job,
quasi, queer, quotation, re-creation, re-formation, reappearance,
rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, reconstruction, recurrence,
redesign, redoing, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, reedition,
reestablishment, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis,
regurgitation, reincarnation, reinstitution, reissue, reiteration,
relief, remaking, renascence, renewal, renovation, reoccurrence,
reorganization, repetition, replacement, replica, replication,
representation, representative, reprinting, reproduction,
resemblance, resembling, reserve, reserves, reshaping, restoration,
restructuring, resumption, resurrection, return, revision, revival,
ringer, rip-off, sameness, satire, second string, secondary,
self-styled, semblance, sham, shoddy, sign, similar, similarity,
simile, similitude, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, smacking of,
so-called, soi-disant, something like, spare, spares, spurious,
squib, stand-in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute,
substitution, succedaneum, suggestive of, superseder, supplanter,
supposititious, surrogate, swindle, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic,
take-off, takeoff, taking, temporary, tentative, third string, tin,
tinsel, titivated, token, travesty, twinning, twisted, unauthentic,
understudy, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal, utility,
utility player, version, vicar, vicarious, vice-president,
vice-regent, warped, whited sepulcher, wicked imitation
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