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counterimitation

counterimitation noun: the act of counterimitating.

Noun

counterimitation (countable and uncountable, plural counterimitations)

  1. The act of counterimitating.
    • Rightist subcultures revel in the “bad taste” of guns, fast food, and un-PC jokes—a counterimitation of effete cosmopolitans that effete cosmopolitans are unlikely to embrace.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

Forms of counterimitation

pluralcounterimitations

Origin of counterimitation

From counter- + imitation.

Questions about counterimitation

What does counterimitation mean?
Counterimitation means the act of counterimitating.
What part of speech is counterimitation?
Counterimitation is a noun.
What is the plural of counterimitation?
The plural of counterimitation is counterimitations.

Words near counterimitation in the dictionary

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

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