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“imitation”
1. The act of something being done, or made in resemblance of something else; a likeness; also, a counterfeit; such as, an imitation of legal money.
2. In music, the repetition of a phrase, or subject, in another voice or a different key.
3. In biology, mimicry of an environment, or of another animal, plant, etc., for concealment or protection.
4. Etymology: from Old French imitacion; from Latin imitationem, imitatio, "imitation"; from imitari, "to copy, to portray, to imitate".
2. In music, the repetition of a phrase, or subject, in another voice or a different key.
3. In biology, mimicry of an environment, or of another animal, plant, etc., for concealment or protection.
4. Etymology: from Old French imitacion; from Latin imitationem, imitatio, "imitation"; from imitari, "to copy, to portray, to imitate".
Related to Latin imago, from "artificial representation that looks like a person or thing", from Old French image, earlier imagene (11th century), from Latin imaginem, imago, "copy, statue, picture, idea, appearance"; from the stem of imitari "to copy, to imitate".
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-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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“imitation”
(Greek: sound, noise; especially a returned sound; repetition, imitation)
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“imitation”
hysterical imitation
The complaints or acting out by an individual of the symptoms of an illness or of a behavior disorder known to him from experience, hearsay, or reading.
A hysterical phenomenon, as in hysteroepilepsy.
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hystero-, hyster-, hysteri- +
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