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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From mimic + -ry.
Pronunciation
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.
Derived terms
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
- Bulgarian: мимикрия (bg) f (mimikrija)
- Catalan: mimetisme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 擬態／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
- Japanese: 擬態 (ja) (ぎたい, gitai)
- Kazakh: қорғаныш рең (qorğanyş reñ)
- Khmer: ការធ្វើត្រាប់តាម (kaa thvəə trap taam)
- 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: sự bắt chước
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