mimesis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis), from μιμεῖσθαι (mimeîsthai, “to imitate”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “a mime”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭmē′səs
• IPA^(key): /mɪˈmiːsɪs/
• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

Noun

mimesis (countable and uncountable, plural mimeses)

1. The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
2. (biology) Mimicry.
3. (medicine) The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present.
4. (rhetoric) The rhetorical pedagogy of imitation.
5. (rhetoric) The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.

Derived terms

• mimetic
• mimicry

Translations

the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions

• Bulgarian: мимезис (mimezis)
• Catalan: mimesi f
• French: mimèse (fr), mimèsis (fr)
• Galician: mimese (gl) f
• German: Mimesis (de) f
• Italian: mimesi (it) f, mimesis f
• Occitan: mimèsi f
• Polish: mimesis (pl) f
• Spanish: mimesis (es)
• Tagalog: gagad
• Turkish: mimesis

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Anagrams

• mimsies

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Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmimesis/, [ˈmime̞s̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -imesis
• Syllabification^(key): mi‧me‧sis

Noun

mimesis

1. (art, rhetoric) mimesis

Declension

Inflection of mimesis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		mimesis	mimesikset
genitive		mimesiksen	mimesisten mimesiksien
partitive		mimesistä	mimesiksiä
illative		mimesikseen	mimesiksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		mimesis	mimesikset
accusative	nom.	mimesis	mimesikset
	gen.	mimesiksen
genitive		mimesiksen	mimesisten mimesiksien
partitive		mimesistä	mimesiksiä
inessive		mimesiksessä	mimesiksissä
elative		mimesiksestä	mimesiksistä
illative		mimesikseen	mimesiksiin
adessive		mimesiksellä	mimesiksillä
ablative		mimesikseltä	mimesiksiltä
allative		mimesikselle	mimesiksille
essive		mimesiksenä	mimesiksinä
translative		mimesikseksi	mimesiksiksi
instructive		—	mimesiksin
abessive		mimesiksettä	mimesiksittä
comitative		—	mimesiksineen

Possessive forms of mimesis (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	mimesikseni	mimesiksemme
2nd person	mimesiksesi	mimesiksenne
3rd person	mimesiksensä

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīmēsis, from Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈmɛ.sis/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛsis
• Syllabification: mi‧me‧sis

Noun

mimesis f (indeclinable)

1. (art, literature) mimesis (representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions)

Further reading

• mimesis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mimesis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Noun

mimesis f (plural mimesis)

1. mimesis

Further reading

• “mimesis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014