Definition of Imitation

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Imitation

The act of imitating.

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.

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.

The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.

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Imitation Quotations

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mohandas Gandhi

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Imitation Translations

imitation in Danish is efterligning
imitation in Dutch is navolging, nabootsing, imitatie
imitation in French is simili
imitation in Norwegian is etterligning
imitation in Swedish is efterbildning

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