simulacrum

IPA: sˈɪmjʌɫækrʌm

Examples of "simulacrum" in Sentences

Replicating a simulacrum is the scincerest form of flattery.
Not sure I really belive that, but you don't see the word simulacrum enough these days.
In occult writings, the word simulacrum designates some object meant to represent a whole for magical purposes.
Such a substitution by the Power Elites/State partnership of symbolic prosperity for broad-based, real prosperity is what I term a simulacrum of prosperity in my analysis.
Baudrillard predicts that in postmodern society the distinction between original products and commodities and their copies weakens, while an interim form called the simulacrum, which is neither original nor copy, becomes dominant.
Kelly: One of the things I will take away from having read Atmospheric Disturbances is the word simulacrum, a word that Leo often uses to describe the facsimile of his wife Rema that is a lot like her and yet not at all her as far as Leo is concerned.
It must be understood that the term simulacrum is defined as "a material image, made as a representation of some deity, person, or thing," as "something having merely the form or appearance of a certain thing, without possessing its substance or proper qualities," as "a mere image, a specious imitation or likeness, of something" (OED).