simulacrum
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yəˈleɪ noun, plural sim·u·la·cra [-kruh] .
[-kruh] . 1.
a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
2.
an effigy, image, or representation: a simulacrum of Aphrodite.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin simulācrum likeness, image, equivalent to simulā(re) to simulate + -crum instrumental suffix
1590–1600; < Latin simulācrum likeness, image, equivalent to simulā(re) to simulate + -crum instrumental suffix
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| —n , pl -cra | |
| 1. | any image or representation of something |
| 2. | a slight, unreal, or vague semblance of something; superficial likeness |
| [C16: from Latin: likeness, from simulāre to imitate, from similis like] | |
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Simulacrum
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
simulacrum
1599, from L. simulacrum "likeness, image, form, representation, portrait," dissimilated from *simulaclom, from simulare "to make like" (see simulation). The word was borrowed earlier as semulacre (late 14c.), via O.Fr. simulacre.
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Example sentences
The experience, with the metabolic changes it sets off, is a simulacrum of dying.
As they drove to the museum, the writer was able to generate a mental simulacrum of its smell.
But she also spends a long part of the film in a strenuous simulacrum of pleasure.
We've made a sort of grotesque doll, a simulacrum of a friend, to play with to replace our withered connection with other humans.
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