Antonyms for simulacrum

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sim-yuh-ley-kruh m

Phonetic Transcription : ˌsɪm yəˈleɪ krəm

Definition 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

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for simulacrum

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