Mimicry vs Disguise - What's the difference?
mimicry | disguise |
the act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else
Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
* Macaulay
To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
* Spectator
As nouns the difference between mimicry and disguise
is that mimicry is the act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else while disguise is attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.As a verb disguise is
to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.mimicry
English
Alternative forms
* mimickryNoun
(mimicries)- They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.
- When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch.
See also
* (wikipedia "mimicry")disguise
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''That cape and mask complete his disguise .
- ''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
Synonyms
* camouflage * guise * mask * pretenseVerb
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.
