mimesisn.

Brit.

/mᵻˈmiːsɪs/,

/mʌɪˈmiːsɪs/,

/mᵻˈmeɪsɪs/,

/ˈmɪməsɪs/, U.S.

/məˈmisᵻs/

Forms: 1500s memesis, 1500s–1600s mimisis, 1500s– mimesis.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μίμησις.

Etymology: < ancient Greek μίμησις imitation (for philosophical use see note at sense 1b) < μιμεῖσθαι to imitate (see mime v.) + -σις -sis suffix.Ancient Greek μίμησις is attested in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a rhetorical term, and in post-classical Latin (from the 2nd or 3rd cent.) transcribed in the Roman alphabet.

†a. Rhetoric. Imitation of another person's words, mannerisms, actions, etc.; an instance of this. Also (occasionally) in extended use. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > use of a person's supposed or imaginable words

mimesis1550

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Eiii Mimisis, that is a folowing eyther of the wordes or manoures whereby we expresse not onlye the wordes of the person, but also the gesture.

1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Oiv Mimisis, an immitation of speech, whereby we counterfeit not only what one sayd, but also vtteraunce and gesture.

1650 J. Trapp Solomonis Παναρετος (Eccles. xi. 9) 154 Solomon..by a Mimesis brings in the wild yonker thus bespeaking himself. Rejoice..&c.

1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxxiv. 568 Satan called here (by a Mimesis) the god of this world: not simply and properly, but because he challenges to himself the honour of a God.

b. Imitation; spec. the representation or imitation of the real world in (a work of) art, literature, etc.Sometimes used with reference to Aristotle Poetics 1447^a or Plato Republic 598b. Although Plato and Aristotle use mimesis to refer generally to the imitation of nature in art, both also use the term more specifically. Plato contrasts two types of speech: the author's own narrative voice (diegesis) and the ‘imitated’ voice of a character (mimesis). Aristotle extended this use to encompass imitative action as well as speech (cf. sense 1a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun]

imitation?1504

mimesisa1586

imitating1591

mocking1611

mockage1615

samplinga1638

exemplification1650

facsimilea1661

mimature1663

mimicry1688

copying1712

mimic1832

patterning1845

simulation1870

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation

ylikenesseOE

likenessOE

anlikenessOE

ylikeOE

imagec1300

acornc1388

portraiturea1393

resemblancea1393

semblanta1400

counterfeitc1400

shapec1400

statuec1405

representation1477

presentationa1513

presentment1535

effigy1539

porture1542

express1553

effigium1564

representance1565

designment1570

icon1572

mimesisa1586

effigies1615

expressurea1616

represent1615

signature1618

proportion1678

representative1766

rendering1825

buggerlugs1839

effigiation1876

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > realism of stories, etc.

mimesisa1586

actuality1812

realism1856

realizableness1886

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C2 ^v Poesie therefore is an arte of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word Memesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfetting, or figuring foorth: to speake metaphorically.

1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 40 Plato drew his idea of the MIMHΣIΣ of poetry from the theatre itself, and from the personal imitations of represented tragedy.]

1877 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 54 Aristotle is sometimes quoted as an authority for realism on the strength of his saying that art in general is mimesis, a term which is translated imitation and taken to mean imitation of nature.

1939 Classical Q. 33 168 The song is a trick, just as in Plato's eyes illusionistic painting is a trick, and this kind of unreal trickery is called mimesis.

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. 19 Art in intention is mimesis But, realized, the resemblance ceases.

1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. Auerbach (title) Mimesis. The representation of reality in western literature.

1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 111 Baudelaire's Tableaux de Paris, whose shape is a mimesis of the city.

1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading vi. 192 Several schools of criticism have come to regard mimesis as a sham or impossibility.

2. Biology. = mimicry n. 2. Also: imitative behaviour of one species by another.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > mimicry

mimicry1816

mimesis1846

mimetism1918

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > similarity between different organisms > mimesis

mimicry1816

mimesis1846

mimetism1870

Batesian mimicry1896

1846 H. E. Strickland in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 28 356 This term [sc. Iconism], suggested by the Rev. Dr. Ingram,..appears preferable to Mimesis, which I had originally proposed to use.

1896 A. H. King Ethnol. 196 With the growing needs of society, it could not fail to develop by various processes—mimesis, reduplication, repetition [etc.].

1951 E. A. Armstrong in Bull. Animal Behaviour 9 46/2 In place of the various terms which have been used to describe the type of behaviour under review the term ‘mimesis’ is advanced and the following definitions suggested:—Mimesis occurs when..the species is so constituted that the perception of certain innate behaviour-patterns performed by another animal is the release of the same, or closely similar innate behaviour-patterns by the observing individual:—or, more briefly, Mimesis consists of the reproduction by one animal of the instinctive behaviour-patterns of another.

1968 R. D. Martin tr. W. Wickler Mimicry in Plants & Animals xviii. 239 If a signal of interest..is imitated, then this is a case of mimicry, whereas if the generally uninteresting background or substrate is imitated, then camouflage (or mimesis) is involved.

1987 Plant Systematics & Evol. 158 11 (title) Pollination by deceit and floral mimesis in Thelymitra antennifera (Orchidaceae).

1997 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 70 297 Mimesis of bees by flies appears most striking when insects forage for nectar on G. brevifolius.

3. Medicine. The production of symptoms characteristic of one disease by another. Cf. mimetic adj. 4b, neuromimesis n. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Mimesis, the occurrence of symptoms, without organic basis or in the course of some disease, which simulate those of another disease.

4. Sociology. The deliberate imitation of the behaviour of one group of people by another (usually less advantaged) as a factor in social change.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > process > types of

cantonizing1611

diffusion1871

social differentiation1872

acculturation1880

feminization1901

mobilization1911

acculturalization1929

mimesis1934

schismogenesis1935

stimulus diffusion1940

transculturation1941

nativism1943

massification1946

villagization1954

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > following in a course of conduct

ensuing1561

successiona1616

mimesis1962

1934 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. III. 245 The problem of bringing the uncreative rank and file of a growing society into line with the creative pioneers..cannot be solved in practice, on the social scale, without also bringing into play the faculty of sheer mimesis—one of the less exalted faculties of Human Nature which has more in it of drill than inspiration.

1948 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 13 265 The harmonizers of divergent cultures..who in themselves achieve the complete assimilation and emotional sharing which when communicated to others by mimesis may lead us to that community of saints which is the culmination of today's best seller Utopia and Way of Salvation.

1962 Listener 8 Feb. 257/3 There is..an important distinction between mimesis, which is imitation of those above you, and solidarity, which is imitation..of those with whom you find yourself in a common situation.

1965 P. Laslett World we have Lost ix. 213 Only if imitation, mimesis, is taken to constitute ‘solidity’ can the phrase the solid middle class be made to apply to any substantial part of the population.

1983 Man 18 341 Practical mimesis may mediate many insights in anthropological fieldwork.

5. Pharmacology and Biochemistry. The reproduction of the action or physiological effects of an enzyme, hormone, etc., esp. by a synthetic compound. Cf. mimetic n. 2, mimetic adj. 4c.

ΚΠ

1986 Chem. & Pharmaceut. Bull. 34 2885 In an attempt to develop good artificial mimesis of catalase, the catalase-like catalytic activity of common ion-exchange resins modified with various metalloporphyrins was estimated.

1995 Molecular & Cellular Biochem. 153 5 The inorganic coordination chemistry of peroxovanadium compounds relevant to insulin mimesis is reviewed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mimesis
释义	mimesisn. Brit. /mᵻˈmiːsɪs/, /mʌɪˈmiːsɪs/, /mᵻˈmeɪsɪs/, /ˈmɪməsɪs/, U.S. /məˈmisᵻs/ Forms: 1500s memesis, 1500s–1600s mimisis, 1500s– mimesis. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μίμησις. Etymology: < ancient Greek μίμησις imitation (for philosophical use see note at sense 1b) < μιμεῖσθαι to imitate (see mime v.) + -σις -sis suffix.Ancient Greek μίμησις is attested in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a rhetorical term, and in post-classical Latin (from the 2nd or 3rd cent.) transcribed in the Roman alphabet. 1. †a. Rhetoric. Imitation of another person's words, mannerisms, actions, etc.; an instance of this. Also (occasionally) in extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > use of a person's supposed or imaginable words mimesis1550 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Eiii Mimisis, that is a folowing eyther of the wordes or manoures whereby we expresse not onlye the wordes of the person, but also the gesture. 1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Oiv Mimisis, an immitation of speech, whereby we counterfeit not only what one sayd, but also vtteraunce and gesture. 1650 J. Trapp Solomonis Παναρετος (Eccles. xi. 9) 154 Solomon..by a Mimesis brings in the wild yonker thus bespeaking himself. Rejoice..&c. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxxiv. 568 Satan called here (by a Mimesis) the god of this world: not simply and properly, but because he challenges to himself the honour of a God. b. Imitation; spec. the representation or imitation of the real world in (a work of) art, literature, etc.Sometimes used with reference to Aristotle Poetics 1447^a or Plato Republic 598b. Although Plato and Aristotle use mimesis to refer generally to the imitation of nature in art, both also use the term more specifically. Plato contrasts two types of speech: the author's own narrative voice (diegesis) and the ‘imitated’ voice of a character (mimesis). Aristotle extended this use to encompass imitative action as well as speech (cf. sense 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] imitation?1504 mimesisa1586 imitating1591 mocking1611 mockage1615 samplinga1638 exemplification1650 facsimilea1661 mimature1663 mimicry1688 copying1712 mimic1832 patterning1845 simulation1870 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation ylikenesseOE likenessOE anlikenessOE ylikeOE imagec1300 acornc1388 portraiturea1393 resemblancea1393 semblanta1400 counterfeitc1400 shapec1400 statuec1405 representation1477 presentationa1513 presentment1535 effigy1539 porture1542 express1553 effigium1564 representance1565 designment1570 icon1572 mimesisa1586 effigies1615 expressurea1616 represent1615 signature1618 proportion1678 representative1766 rendering1825 buggerlugs1839 effigiation1876 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > realism of stories, etc. mimesisa1586 actuality1812 realism1856 realizableness1886 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C2 ^v Poesie therefore is an arte of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word Memesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfetting, or figuring foorth: to speake metaphorically. 1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 40 Plato drew his idea of the MIMHΣIΣ of poetry from the theatre itself, and from the personal imitations of represented tragedy.] 1877 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 54 Aristotle is sometimes quoted as an authority for realism on the strength of his saying that art in general is mimesis, a term which is translated imitation and taken to mean imitation of nature. 1939 Classical Q. 33 168 The song is a trick, just as in Plato's eyes illusionistic painting is a trick, and this kind of unreal trickery is called mimesis. 1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. 19 Art in intention is mimesis But, realized, the resemblance ceases. 1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. Auerbach (title) Mimesis. The representation of reality in western literature. 1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 111 Baudelaire's Tableaux de Paris, whose shape is a mimesis of the city. 1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading vi. 192 Several schools of criticism have come to regard mimesis as a sham or impossibility. 2. Biology. = mimicry n. 2. Also: imitative behaviour of one species by another. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > mimicry mimicry1816 mimesis1846 mimetism1918 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > similarity between different organisms > mimesis mimicry1816 mimesis1846 mimetism1870 Batesian mimicry1896 1846 H. E. Strickland in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 28 356 This term [sc. Iconism], suggested by the Rev. Dr. Ingram,..appears preferable to Mimesis, which I had originally proposed to use. 1896 A. H. King Ethnol. 196 With the growing needs of society, it could not fail to develop by various processes—mimesis, reduplication, repetition [etc.]. 1951 E. A. Armstrong in Bull. Animal Behaviour 9 46/2 In place of the various terms which have been used to describe the type of behaviour under review the term ‘mimesis’ is advanced and the following definitions suggested:—Mimesis occurs when..the species is so constituted that the perception of certain innate behaviour-patterns performed by another animal is the release of the same, or closely similar innate behaviour-patterns by the observing individual:—or, more briefly, Mimesis consists of the reproduction by one animal of the instinctive behaviour-patterns of another. 1968 R. D. Martin tr. W. Wickler Mimicry in Plants & Animals xviii. 239 If a signal of interest..is imitated, then this is a case of mimicry, whereas if the generally uninteresting background or substrate is imitated, then camouflage (or mimesis) is involved. 1987 Plant Systematics & Evol. 158 11 (title) Pollination by deceit and floral mimesis in Thelymitra antennifera (Orchidaceae). 1997 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 70 297 Mimesis of bees by flies appears most striking when insects forage for nectar on G. brevifolius. 3. Medicine. The production of symptoms characteristic of one disease by another. Cf. mimetic adj. 4b, neuromimesis n. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Mimesis, the occurrence of symptoms, without organic basis or in the course of some disease, which simulate those of another disease. 4. Sociology. The deliberate imitation of the behaviour of one group of people by another (usually less advantaged) as a factor in social change. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > process > types of cantonizing1611 diffusion1871 social differentiation1872 acculturation1880 feminization1901 mobilization1911 acculturalization1929 mimesis1934 schismogenesis1935 stimulus diffusion1940 transculturation1941 nativism1943 massification1946 villagization1954 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > following in a course of conduct ensuing1561 successiona1616 mimesis1962 1934 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. III. 245 The problem of bringing the uncreative rank and file of a growing society into line with the creative pioneers..cannot be solved in practice, on the social scale, without also bringing into play the faculty of sheer mimesis—one of the less exalted faculties of Human Nature which has more in it of drill than inspiration. 1948 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 13 265 The harmonizers of divergent cultures..who in themselves achieve the complete assimilation and emotional sharing which when communicated to others by mimesis may lead us to that community of saints which is the culmination of today's best seller Utopia and Way of Salvation. 1962 Listener 8 Feb. 257/3 There is..an important distinction between mimesis, which is imitation of those above you, and solidarity, which is imitation..of those with whom you find yourself in a common situation. 1965 P. Laslett World we have Lost ix. 213 Only if imitation, mimesis, is taken to constitute ‘solidity’ can the phrase the solid middle class be made to apply to any substantial part of the population. 1983 Man 18 341 Practical mimesis may mediate many insights in anthropological fieldwork. 5. Pharmacology and Biochemistry. The reproduction of the action or physiological effects of an enzyme, hormone, etc., esp. by a synthetic compound. Cf. mimetic n. 2, mimetic adj. 4c. ΚΠ 1986 Chem. & Pharmaceut. Bull. 34 2885 In an attempt to develop good artificial mimesis of catalase, the catalase-like catalytic activity of common ion-exchange resins modified with various metalloporphyrins was estimated. 1995 Molecular & Cellular Biochem. 153 5 The inorganic coordination chemistry of peroxovanadium compounds relevant to insulin mimesis is reviewed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1550
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