Crossword clues for simulacrum
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simulacrum \Sim`u*la"crum\, n.; pl. Simulacra. [L. See Simulate.] A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.
Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum.
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An image or representation. 2 A faint trace or semblance.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A simulacrum ( plural: simulacra from , which means "likeness, similarity") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing. The word was first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god. By the late 19th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original. Philosopher Fredric Jameson offers photorealism as an example of artistic simulacrum, where a painting is sometimes created by copying a photograph that is itself a copy of the real. Other art forms that play with simulacra include trompe-l'œil, pop art, Italian neorealism, and French New Wave.
Simulacrum is an album composed by John Zorn featuring John Medeski, Matt Hollenberg and Kenny Grohowski which was released on the Tzadik label in March 2015.
Usage examples of "simulacrum".
The murky area at the edges of the simulacrum quickly grew to overshroud the whole scene, then parted, revealing a much closer perspective.
Leibniz, and squared off before Daniel, forcing his features into a simulacrum of a smile.
The backblast knocked Brennan down and took out the other two simulacra as well.
The Freedom statue erected by the Leftists was a lead image of the late Che Guevara, with a glued-on Brillo beard, aiming a Czechoslovakian machine pistol at the opposing Freedom statue erected by the Rightists: a lead simulacrum of the late J.
Shirt, trunks, codpiece, doublet, feathered French hat, slashed shoes -- clothes of synthetic cloth that was an exact simulacrum of old-time weaving, the shoes of good leather handmade.
It was a simulacrum of Event Horizon's Zanthus operations, a vast web of data channels incorporating every activity, programmed to review the entire previous twelve months, the first three giving her a baseline for comparison.
I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, and since (as the psychotherapist, as well as the rapist, will tell you) the limits and rules of such girlish games are fluid, or at least too childishly subtle for the senior partner to graspI was dreadfully afraid I might go too far and cause her to start back in revulsion and terror.
Don't you remember that discussion between Lincoln--the Lincoln simulacrum, I mean--and Barrows and Blunk?
Nild opened the car door wide for us, and between Blunk and myself we managed to get the simulacrum into the back seat.
The block’s screen was showing two humanoid simulacrums running through contortional permutations.
The younger Victor mentions the mechanical genius of Valentinian, nova arma meditari fingere terra seu limo simulacra.
The simulacra which had gotten loose ran at hazard through their confinement, emitting terror as they went.
The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infinite weight of mortal lies.
Mass-mediated politicians and Disneyfied audioanimatrons inhabit a strange postmodern space, a "distancing at the heart of the thing" that "is not a simple change of place," but rather a self-distancing in which the object itself is transformed into its own image or simulacrum (Blanchot).
Lincoln, Simulacrum he operates a little business that produces corny electronic organs -- and, later on, human-like robots which ultimately become more of an irritation than a threat.