Usually means: Imitation of reality in art.
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  1. mimesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. mimesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mimesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mimesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mimesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mimesis, mimesis: Wordnik
  7. mimesis: Wiktionary
  8. mimesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mimesis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mimesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mimesis, mimesis: Dictionary.com
  12. Mimesis (biology), Mimesis (disambiguation), Mimesis (magazine), Mimesis (mathematics), Mimesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Mimesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. mimesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. mimesis: Rhymezone
  16. Mimesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. mimesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. mimesis: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mimesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mimesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. -mimesis: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. MIMESIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. mimesis: Legal dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Mimesis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. -mimesis, mimesis: Medical dictionary
  5. Mimesis: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mimesis)

noun:  The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
noun:  (biology) Mimicry.
noun:  (medicine) The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present.
noun:  (rhetoric) The rhetorical pedagogy of imitation.
noun:  (rhetoric) The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.

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