mimeticismn.
/mᵻˈmɛtɪsɪz(ə)m/, /mʌɪˈmɛtɪsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /məˈmɛdɪˌsɪz(ə)m/ Chiefly Art and Literary Theory.
Mimetic quality; a theory or practice of representation based on imitation.
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1984 MLN 99 1133 The achievement of referential intensity in this phrase [sc. thick syrupy liquor for the lips] is not a matter of the specific ‘mimeticism’ of the phones [i] or [l] or [p] in relation to sloe gin or the drinking thereof.
1988 Smithsonian Stud. Amer. Art Fall 7/2 The nocturne altered expectations about the kinds of truths art should reveal, subversively posing its delicate balance of romantic mystery and abstract form against the mainstream preoccupation with narrative and hard-edged mimeticism.
1995 Washington Post 5 Feb. 5/1 The narrative proceeds not by recounting a sequence of events shaming mimeticism, but, as in Montaigne's essays, by the full play of the author's mind across a theme.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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