Mimic vs Amimic - What's the difference?
mimic | amimic |
To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
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(biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
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Mock, pretended.
(mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
(medicine) unable to express oneself using gestures
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As adjectives the difference between mimic and amimic
is that mimic is pertaining to mimicry; imitative while amimic is (medicine) unable to express oneself using gestures.As a verb mimic
is to imitate, especially in order to ridicule.As a noun mimic
is a person who practices mimicry, or mime.mimic
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Alternative forms
* mimickVerb
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Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- I think every man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many apish and mimicke trickes, that juglers teach their Dogges, as the dances, where they misse not one cadence of the sounds or notes they heare.
- Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
- Mimic hootings.
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* *amimic
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Adjective
(-)- Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).