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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or quality of being imitative.

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  • noun the state of being imitative; imitation

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Examples

  • Still it would not be fair to speak in these terms of praise without pointing out the transparent imitativeness which is common to all these poems.

    Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896

  • Still it would not be fair to speak in these terms of praise without pointing out the transparent imitativeness which is common to all these poems.

    Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874

  • Narrowing the process down to impersonation should make clear that Plato finds a Sophist's imitativeness much like a poet's.

    Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008

  • From pure imitativeness he jeers at things which in fact he believes in.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • Imitation of models (unlike unconscious, unperceived, spontaneous influences by one society on another) leads to arti - ficiality, feeble imitativeness, degraded art and life.

    THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968

  • At the age, then, of two or three the first quality of the child which may arrest our attention is his extreme imitativeness.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • We may pass from considering the imitativeness of the child to study a second and closely related quality, his suggestibility.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • Speech, beginnings of facility with which local accent is acquired imitativeness of infant's reasoning power present before advent of influence of nurses and mothers on tone and manner of

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • The imitativeness of the young child is so great that he will repeat in almost every detail all the actions of his nurse as she carries out the daily routine.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • Doll, child's care of, an example of imitativeness educative value of

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

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