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[ adjective ] characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis

Examples

"a mimetic dance" "the mimetic presentation of images"

Used in print

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

As in experience one is seized by given entities and their interrelations and is forced to respond in value feelings to them , so one is similarly seized in the mimetic presentation of images .

The mimetic character of the imaginative consciousness tends to express itself in the presentation of artistic forms and materials .

Related terms

representational

2
[ adjective ] exhibiting mimicry

Examples

"mimetic coloring of a butterfly" "the mimetic tendency of infancy"- R.W.Hamilton

Related terms

imitative

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