imitation
The act of imitating.
Other meanings
attributive A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
“imitation leather”
Related words
- autoimitation
- counterimitation
- imitational
- imitationism
- imitationist
- overimitation
- imitation lace
- imitation vanilla
- non-imitation
- self-imitation
- imitation game
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "imitatio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “imitation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.