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imitancy

imitancy noun: tendency to imitation.

Noun

imitancy (uncountable)

  1. Tendency to imitation.
    • Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler relationship and mysterious union to one another which lies in such imitancy, of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure (itself nowise original) of a Flock of Sheep.1832, Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson

Origin of imitancy

From Latin imitāns, present participle of imitō.

Questions about imitancy

What does imitancy mean?
Imitancy means tendency to imitation.
What part of speech is imitancy?
Imitancy is a noun.

Words near imitancy in the dictionary

  1. imiquimoid
  2. imit.
  3. imitability
  4. imitable
  5. imitableness
  6. imitancy
  7. imitant
  8. imitants
  9. imitate
  10. imitated
  11. imitatee

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