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- Ancient Greek · derived fromμῑ́μησις
- English todaymimesis
From Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis), from μιμεῖσθαι (mimeîsthai, “to imitate”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “a mime”). By surface analysis, mime + -esis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.