mimo-, mim-, -mimesis, -mimia, -mimetic, -mime, -mimic, -mimical, -mimically +

1. To make fun of someone by imitating a person in an exaggerated way.
2. To adopt another person's voice, gestures, or appearance, in a deliberate and exaggerated way; especially, with the purpose of amusing people.
3. To resemble something in a way that seems like a deliberate copy.

1. Copied, or imitated, closely; especially, in speech, expression, and gesture; aped.
2. Copied, or imitated, so as to ridicule; mocked: "She always mimicked the boss in the way he spoke."
3. Resembled closely; simulated; such as, an insect that mimicked a twig.

Anyone who mimics; especially, an actor or an actress.

1. Tending to imitate; imitating.
2. Mocking or making believe.

1. The act, practice, or art of mimicking; an instance of mimicking.
2. The imitating of other people's voices, gestures, or appearance, often for comic effect.
3. Similarity of appearance in nature where the resemblance of a plant or animal to another species, or to a feature, of its natural surroundings; developed as protection from predators.

A writer of mimes.

1. The simulation, due to hysteria, of the symptoms of a disease. 2. The simulation of the symptoms of one disease by another.

A plant, or animal, resembling in many respects another one from which it is systematically distinct and geographically isolated.

1. The simulation of death by a mental patient who believes himself/herself to be dead.
2. The pathological delusion in which a person is convinced that he/she is dead.

A term referring to the hysterical or neurotic simulation of disease.

Resembling a dream as a partly forgotten experience.

1. Some one who acts without speaking but who simply uses gestures and expressions.
2. A performance using gestures and body movements without words.
3. A form of communication by means of gestures and facial expressions.
4. In ancient Rome, a theatrical performance by one masked actor who played all the characters, using only dance, gesture, and expression, and no words; while a chorus narrated the story.
5. Etymology: "mime actor", from Latin pantomimus, "mime, dancer"; from Greek pantomimos, "actor"; literally, "imitator of all"; from panto-, "all" + mimos, "imitator".

The willful, deliberate, and fraudulent feigning, or exaggeration, of the symptoms of illness or injury; which is done for the purpose of consciously achieving some desired objective.

1. A drug or substance that produces psychological and behavioral changes resembling those of psychosis; for example, LSD.
2. Tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory as a result of some substance or drug.

Producing, or imitating, effects similar to those of ionizing radiations.