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counterimitating

counterimitating is the present participle and gerund of counterimitate.

Meaning of counterimitate

Verb

counterimitate (third-person singular simple present counterimitates, present participle counterimitating, simple past and past participle counterimitated)

  1. To react to another person by refraining from doing what they do; to deliberately not imitate.
    • The pressures of status give every individual a set of conflicting demands: imitate the group norms, counterimitate rivals, emulate superiors but not too obviously, and be unique but not too unique.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

Questions about counterimitating

What is counterimitating the present participle and gerund of?
Counterimitating is the present participle and gerund of counterimitate.

Words near counterimitating in the dictionary

  1. counterimagination
  2. counterimaginations
  3. counterimitate
  4. counterimitated
  5. counterimitates
  6. counterimitating
  7. counterimitation
  8. counterimitations
  9. counterimitative
  10. counterimmune
  11. counterimmunoelectrophoresis

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