Word.ws English Dictionary

antimimetic

antimimetic adjective: opposing or avoiding mimesis; not mimicking.

Adjective

antimimetic (not comparable)

  1. Opposing or avoiding mimesis; not mimicking.
    • an antimimetic theory of trauma

Origin of antimimetic

From anti- + mimetic.

Questions about antimimetic

What does antimimetic mean?
Antimimetic means opposing or avoiding mimesis; not mimicking.
What part of speech is antimimetic?
Antimimetic is an adjective.

Words near antimimetic in the dictionary

  1. antimilitaristic
  2. antimilitarists
  3. antimilitary
  4. antimilitia
  5. antimilk
  6. antimimetic
  7. antimine
  8. antimineralisation
  9. antimineralization
  10. antimineralocorticoid
  11. antimineralocorticoids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: antimimetic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “antimimetic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/antimimetic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.