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mimeticity

mimeticity noun: the quality or state of being mimetic, or the degree to which one is mimetic.

Noun

mimeticity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality or state of being mimetic, or the degree to which one is mimetic.
    • Now the Imitation Theory of Art (IT) is, if one but thinks it through, an exceedingly powerful theory. . . . Moreover, it is a simple matter to shore it up against many purported counterinstances by such auxiliary hypotheses as that the artist who deviates from mimeticity is perverse, inept, or mad.1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in Journal of Philosophy, volume 61, number 19, page 572

Origin of mimeticity

From mimetic + -ity.

Questions about mimeticity

What does mimeticity mean?
Mimeticity means the quality or state of being mimetic, or the degree to which one is mimetic.
What part of speech is mimeticity?
Mimeticity is a noun.

Words near mimeticity in the dictionary

  1. mimetically
  2. mimeticism
  3. mimeticisms
  4. mimeticist
  5. mimeticists
  6. mimeticity
  7. mimetick
  8. mimetics
  9. mimetid
  10. mimetids
  11. mimetism

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