<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of someone else, as in order to represent their character.</li><li>In literature, film, art, etc., imitation of the real world, as by re-creating instances of human action and events or portraying objects found in nature.</li><li>The showing of a story, as by dialogue and enactment of events.</li><li>In biology, imitation; in zoology, mimicry.</li><li>In pathology, the simulation, due to hysteria, of the symptoms of a disease.</li><li>The simulation of the symptoms of one disease by another.</li></ul>