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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