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Mimic vs Authentic - What's the difference?

mimic | authentic |

As adjectives the difference between mimic and authentic

is that mimic is pertaining to mimicry; imitative while authentic is of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

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

English

Alternative forms

* mimick

Verb

  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
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  • (biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
  • An imitation.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
  • *, II.12:
    • 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.
  • * Milton
    • Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Mimic hootings.
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * mime * mimicable * mimicry

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    authentic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * authentical, authentick, authenticke, authentique (all archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
    • The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
  • Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
    • The report was completely authentic .
    an authentic''' writer; an '''authentic''' portrait; '''authentic information
  • (music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
  • (obsolete) authoritative
    • (Milton)

    Synonyms

    * (of the claimed origin) genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked * (conforming to fact) reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfaked

    Antonyms

    * (not of the claimed origin) phony, fake; ingenuine

    Derived terms

    * authentically * authenticate * authentication * authenticity * authenticism * authenticist