imitative

imitative (ˈɪmɪtətɪv)

—*adj*
1.	imitating or tending to imitate or copy
2.	characterized by imitation
3.	copying or reproducing the features of an original, esp in an inferior manner: imitative painting
4.	another word for onomatopoeic

'imitatively

—*adv*

'imitativeness

—n

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There is convincing behavioral evidence linking media violence with imitative violence.

Futility of interjectional and sound-imitative theories of the origin of speech.

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"To play is nothing but the imitative substitution of a pleasurable, superfluous and voluntary action for a serious, necessary, imperative and difficult one. At the cradle of play as well as of artistic activity there stood leisure, tedium entailed by increased spiritual mobility, a horror vacui, the need of letting forms no longer imprisoned move freely, of filling empty time with sequences of notes, empty space with sequences of form."

-Max J. Friedländer