Antonym: invention. Similar words: limitation, delimitation, agitation, sanitation, hesitation, habitation, levitation, invitation. Meaning: [‚ɪmɪ'teɪʃn] 
n. 1. the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations 2. a copy that is represented as the original 3. copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else 4. a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect. adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article.
n. 1. the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations 2. a copy that is represented as the original 3. copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else 4. a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect. adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article. 
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61. The bird in this treatment would have the opportunity to learn the skill by imitation.
62. To its critics, it became a mild tabloid and a very pale imitation of what was originally intended.
63. The necklace was a cheap imitation, but she was obviously very proud of it.
64. A true cat prefers to sharpen his claws on authentic imported oriental carpets, not cheap imitation knock-offs.
65. But whether the use of imitation wood is a success is more a matter of personal taste.
66. But this imitation of well-established exemplars is another mark of the psychotic rather than the genuine mystic.
67. On this basis imitation tasks ought to be regarded as giving a conservative estimate of the child's grammatical knowledge.
68. The table-tops were imitation wickerwork and there was a pointless trellis pattern on the curtains.
69. Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.
70. There were even imitation sheepskins, but worn at the risk of being considered a total nebbish.
71. From the Gerand range are Golden Synthetic Hair brushes, a superb imitation sable, similar to the natural product.
72. The resounding cry of emancipation from the tyranny of imitation was echoed well into the twentieth century.
73. So much for his promised imitation of a Catholic priest, she reflected bitterly.
74. Children often use dough in imitation of pastry; rolling, cutting and making cakes, pies or pasties.
75. Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson 
76. Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire
77. Mannie Pratt would have the bar in stitches doing an imitation of him.
78. Better, thought Sammler, to accept the inevitability of imitation and then to imitate good things.
79. The best one could expect was a crude imitation in an obviously fruity,(http://sentencedict.com/imitation.html) superficially appealing style.
80. Before the days of written scores, people learned informally by imitation.
81. Taking ideas and improving them is much more valuable than mere imitation.
82. Deferred imitation is the imitation of objects and events that have not been present for some time.
83. Patsy and Betsy were in their best Sunday frocks, short-skirted, Patsy wearing imitation silk stockings and Betsy white socks.
84. In the imagination, of course, there is an added pleasure from recognition of the resemblance between the imitation and the original.
85. Three generations of imitation so doggedly faithful that it defied credibility.
86. Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood may be related to a whole series of studies of cognitive development by piaget.
87. Nora chose a blue cotton dress with lots of tiny buttons covered in maroon imitation silk.
88. His station was an imitation of the Louvre, backed by the first truly great single-span train-shed built in the United States.
89. The boy was twisting one side of his face in grotesque imitation of his grandfather.
90. These, however, are but a pale imitation of the History file.
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