mimetic

IPA: mˈɪmˈɛtɪk

Something mimetic or imitative.
(education) A type of mnemonic in the form of a picture.
(pharmacology) A substance with similar pharmacological effects to another substance.

Examples of "mimetic" in Sentences

Some of the ads were the buildings themselves (it's called mimetic architecture).
In English these are called mimetic words, or a mimesis, but who knows what that means anyway?
Next time, I'm planning to investigate the notion of mimetic desire - unless there's anywhere else you'd rather visit first.
High mimetic is not a phase but a heroic register (and one we might well argue turns romance into epic and horror into tragedy).
Low mimetic is likewise a non-heroic register, a register of realism in the representation of an individual’s relationship to society.
But this does not in reality differ from the Aristotelian mimetic, which is concerned, not only with the real, but also with the possible.
Kant also assumes that although our pleasure in beauty should be a response to the form of an object alone, fine art is paradigmatically mimetic, that is, has representational or semantic content (CPJ, Â§48, 5: 311).
It is never the case that a single hegemonic entity called capitalism enters new settings that simply succumb in mimetic fashion to the new order that is thus reproduced neatly and cleanly over these remote environments.