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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Mimesis \Mi*me"sis\, noun [NL., fr. Gr. ? imitation.] (Rhet. & Biol.) Imitation; mimicry.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

mimesis

noun

1: the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature

2: any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease

3: the representation of another person's words in a speech

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