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Imitating vs Mimicking - What's the difference?

imitating | mimicking |

As verbs the difference between imitating and mimicking

is that imitating is present participle of lang=en while mimicking is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun mimicking is

mimicry.

imitating

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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.