English
Etymology
From mimic -ry
Pronunciation
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Noun
mimicry (countable and uncountable plural mimicries
An act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance of someone or something else.
They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me. When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch.
Translations
the act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: mimetisme (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 擬態 ／ 拟态 (zh) ( nǐtài ) , 拟态 (zh) ( nǐtài ) , 模仿 (zh) ( mófǎng )
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: mimiikka (fi) , jäljittely (fi)
French: mimétisme (fr) m mimique (fr) f
German: Mimikry (de) f Nachahmung (de) f
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: अनुकरण (hi) m ( anukraṇ )
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Irish: aithriseoireacht f athmhagadh m
Italian: mimetismo (it) m scimmiottatura f scimmiottamento m mimica (it) f ( zoology, botany ) mimetizzazione f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Japanese: 擬態 (ja) ( ぎたい, gitai )
Kazakh: қорғаныш рең ( qorğanyş reñ )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 흉내 (ko) ( hyungnae ) , 입내 ( imnae )
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Malayalam: മിമിക്രി ( mimikri ) , ശബ്ദാനുകരണം ( śabdānukaraṇaṁ )
Persian: میمیک (fa) ( mimik )
Polish: naśladownictwo (pl) n
Portuguese: mímica (pt) f mimetismo (pt) m ( biology )
Russian: подража́ние (ru) n ( podražánije ) , мими́крия (ru) f ( mimíkrija )
Swedish: mimikry (sv) c
Tagalog: gagad
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: öyküntü (tr) , taklit (tr)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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