Mockery vs Chimera - What's the difference?
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The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
(obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
(mythology) Chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals
A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author
(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes
(architecture) A grotesque, like a gargoyle but without a spout for rainwater
(usually chimaera ) A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
Mockery is a related term of chimera.
As nouns the difference between mockery and chimera
is that mockery is the action of mocking; ridicule, derision while chimera is chimera.mockery
English
Noun
(mockeries)- The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.