<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a result or product of imitating.</li><li>the act of imitating.</li><li>a counterfeit; copy.</li><li>a literary composition that imitates the manner or subject of another author or work.</li><li>Biology: mimicry.</li><li>Psychology: the performance of an act whose stimulus is the observation of the act performed by another person.</li><li>Sociology: the copying of patterns of activity and thought of other groups or individuals.</li><li>Art: (in Aristotelian aesthetics) the representation of an object or an action as it ought to be.</li><li>the representation of actuality in art or literature.</li><li>Music: the repetition of a melodic phrase at a different pitch or key from the original or in a different voice part.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>designed to imitate a genuine or superior article or thing: imitation leather.</li><li>Jewelry: noting an artificial gem no part of which is of the true gemstone.</li></ul>