Associations to the word «Mimesis»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

MIMESIS, noun. The imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature.
MIMESIS, noun. Any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease.
MIMESIS, noun. The representation of another person's words in a speech.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates