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facsimilia

facsimilia is the plural of facsimile.

Meaning of facsimile

Noun

facsimile (countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

  1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
    • To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540
    Synonyms:
    autotype, copy, reproduction, facsimile reproduction, fax
  2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
    • Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images by means of radio or a telephone network.
  4. The image sent by the machine itself.

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Questions about facsimilia

What is facsimilia the plural of?
Facsimilia is the plural of facsimile.

Words near facsimilia in the dictionary

  1. facsimile machine
  2. facsimile machines
  3. facsimiled
  4. facsimileing
  5. facsimiles
  6. facsimilia
  7. facsimilied
  8. facsimiling
  9. facsimilist
  10. facsimilists
  11. facsimilize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: facsimilia (page history and authors); facsimile (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.

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