mimesis

Other forms of mimesis

plural

mimesises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mimesis

What does mimesis mean?

mimesis means "the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mimesis?

mimesis has 3 syllables and divides as mi-me-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is mimesis a common word?

mimesis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.