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Copying vs Mimicking - What's the difference?

copying | mimicking |

As verbs the difference between copying and mimicking

is that copying is while mimicking is .

As nouns the difference between copying and mimicking

is that copying is (countable) an instance of the making of a copy while mimicking is mimicry.

copying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) an instance of the making of a copy
  • (uncountable) the practice of making one or more copies

    • mimicking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • mimicry
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • They had a thousand odd stories and jokes about the events of the day, and burlesque descriptions and mimickings of the spectators who had been admiring them.