Synonyms for simulacrum
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sim-yuh-ley-kruh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌsɪm yəˈleɪ krəm |
Top 10 synonyms for simulacrum Other synonyms for the word simulacrum
- carbon copy
- ectype
- facsimile
- forgery
- hard copy
- image
- impersonation
- impression
- imprint
- likeness
- microfiche
- mimeograph
- miniature
- mirror
- model
- offprint
- parallel
- pattern
- photocopy
- photograph
- Photostat
- portrait
- reduplication
- reflection
- replica
- replication
- representation
- reprint
- reproduction
- rubbings
- similarity
- simulation
- study
- tracing
- transcript
- transcription
- type
- Xerox
Définition of simulacrum
Origin :- 1590s, from Latin simulacrum "likeness, image, form, representation, portrait," dissimilated from *simulaclom, from simulare "to make like, imitate, copy, represent" (see simulation). The word was borrowed earlier as semulacre (late 14c.), via Old French simulacre.
- noun copy
- They radiate from the surface of the skin and reproduce a simulacrum, as it were, of the surface.
- Extract from : « The Problems of Psychical Research » by Hereward Carrington
- Denis, boy, will you do this thing and be for the time being the simulacrum of him we serve?
- Extract from : « The King's Esquires » by George Manville Fenn
- It might have been, for all I could tell, a simulacrum of the work of men.
- Extract from : « Old Junk » by H. M. Tomlinson
- Surely this is not argument; it is hardly the simulacrum of argument.
- Extract from : « The Color Line » by William Benjamin Smith
- Or is this same Age of Hope itself but a simulacrum; as Hope too often is?
- Extract from : « The French Revolution » by Thomas Carlyle
- There will never more be really a Pope, but only the effigy or simulacrum of one.
- Extract from : « At Home And Abroad » by Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Morality demands "the good," and not a simulacrum or make-shift.
- Extract from : « Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher » by Henry Jones
- I didn't look at him very much; I was studying the simulacrum of Yva.
- Extract from : « When the World Shook » by H. Rider Haggard
- So the altogether British love of sport compelled this little interlude in the abuse levelled at the “simulacrum.”
- Extract from : « The Brighton Road » by Charles G. Harper
- Distinctly outlined on the lid of the coffin was the simulacrum of the figure of a man.
- Extract from : « The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories » by Charles Egbert Craddock
Antonyms for simulacrum
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