Synonyms for Imitation:

• adj.

  •duplicate (adjective)
  • equivalent,
  • counterfeit,
  • duplicate,
  • facsimile,
  • model.
  •pretended (adjective)
  • assumed,
  • feigned.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • affected,
  • artificial,
  • bogus,
  • deceitful,
  • ersatz,
  • fake,
  • false,
  • forced,
  • forged,
  • fraudulent,
  • histrionic,
  • la-di-da,
  • mannered,
  • mock,
  • ostentatious,
  • overdone,
  • posing,
  • pretentious,
  • showy,
  • stagy,
  • stiff,
  • stilted,
  • studied,
  • synthetic,
  • theatrical,
  • unnatural,
  • Impersonating,
  • Masquerading,
  • counterfeit,
  • facade,
  • imposture.
  •representative (adjective)
  • analogous,
  • approximate,
  • cartoon,
  • copy,
  • facsimile,
  • graphic,
  • illustrative,
  • metaphorical,
  • miniature,
  • model,
  • outline,
  • pastiche,
  • portrayed,
  • replica,
  • Aping,
  • Rendered,
  • representative.
  •spurious (adjective)
  • unauthentic,
  • ungenuine.
  •substitute (adjective)
  • replacement,
  • substitute.

• n.

  •
  • ape,
  • imitate,
  • impersonate,
  • mimic.
  •
  • man-made,
  • human-made.
  •
  • photocopy,
  • reflex,
  • repetition,
  • tracing,
  • transcript.
  •
  • plagiarism,
  • takeoff.
  •
  • pinchbeck.
  •
  • pretend,
  • manmade.
  •acting (noun)
  • characterization,
  • feigning,
  • pantomime,
  • Enacting.
  •copied (noun)
  • feigned.
  •duplicate (noun)
  • clone,
  • ditto,
  • icon,
  • simulacrum,
  • xerox.
  •imitation (noun)
  • artificial,
  • burlesque,
  • carbon,
  • caricature,
  • counterfeit,
  • duplicate,
  • echo,
  • emulation,
  • ersatz,
  • fake,
  • false,
  • faux,
  • forgery,
  • impersonation,
  • mimicry,
  • mirror,
  • mockery,
  • parallel,
  • parody,
  • pseudo,
  • reflection,
  • replication,
  • reproduction,
  • sham,
  • simulated,
  • simulation,
  • spoof,
  • substitute,
  • travesty,
  • unreal.
  •pretension (noun)
  • affectation,
  • air,
  • artificiality,
  • bluff,
  • charade,
  • claim,
  • counterfeit,
  • cover,
  • deceit,
  • device,
  • disguise,
  • facade,
  • fakery,
  • falseness,
  • forgery,
  • fraud,
  • front,
  • gimmick,
  • guise,
  • impersonation,
  • imposture,
  • mannerism,
  • masquerade,
  • ostentation,
  • pose,
  • pretense,
  • pretension,
  • show,
  • stage.
  •representation (noun)
  • approximation,
  • bust,
  • carving,
  • cast,
  • depiction,
  • drawing,
  • duplication,
  • effigy,
  • figurine,
  • idol,
  • illustration,
  • image,
  • impression,
  • metaphor,
  • photograph,
  • picture,
  • portrayal,
  • rendering,
  • representation,
  • silhouette,
  • snapshot,
  • statue.
  •reproduction (noun)
  • copying,
  • procreation,
  • transcription.
  •similarity (noun)
  • alikeness,
  • analog,
  • analogy,
  • closeness,
  • likeness,
  • match,
  • resemblance,
  • sameness,
  • semblance,
  • similarity,
  • similitude,
  • twin.
  •simulation, substitution (noun)
  • apery,
  • carbon copy,
  • clone,
  • copy,
  • counterfeit,
  • counterpart,
  • ditto,
  • dupe,
  • duplicate,
  • duplication,
  • echoing,
  • ersatz,
  • fake,
  • forgery,
  • image,
  • impersonation,
  • impression,
  • likeness,
  • match,
  • matching,
  • mime,
  • mimesis,
  • mimicry,
  • mockery,
  • parallel,
  • parody,
  • phony,
  • picture,
  • reflection,
  • replica,
  • reproduction,
  • resemblance,
  • ringer,
  • semblance,
  • sham,
  • simulacrum,
  • takeoff,
  • transcription,
  • travesty,
  • xerox,
  • Aping,
  • Mirroring,
  • Paralleling,
  • Paraphrasing,
  • Patterning,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • representing,
  • parroting.
  •substitute (noun)
  • alternate,
  • alternative,
  • deputy,
  • double,
  • dummy,
  • lieutenant,
  • proxy,
  • replacement,
  • representative,
  • second,
  • substitute,
  • surrogate,
  • understudy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • impersonate,
  • man-made,
  • mimic,
  • photocopy,
  • knockoff,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • human-made.
  •
  • mime,
  • pinchbeck,
  • plagiarism,
  • takeoff,
  • manmade.
  •
  • ape,
  • tracing,
  • take off.
  •
  • repetition.
  •
  • reconstruction.
  •
  • pretend.
  •
  • DO.
  •plaster of Paris
  • plaster.
  •Other relevant words:
  • accomplish,
  • accordance,
  • achieve,
  • acting,
  • adoption,
  • adumbration,
  • adviser,
  • affect,
  • agent,
  • agreement,
  • alike,
  • alliance,
  • ape,
  • apery,
  • apocryphal,
  • apostle,
  • approach,
  • appropriation,
  • arrange,
  • art,
  • assimilation,
  • assume,
  • assumed,
  • assumption,
  • autoradiography,
  • backup,
  • brummagem,
  • carbon copy,
  • change,
  • changeling,
  • characterization,
  • cheap,
  • cheat,
  • chintzy,
  • cinematography,
  • clinquant,
  • colored,
  • commit,
  • community,
  • comparability,
  • comparison,
  • conformity,
  • construct,
  • contrived,
  • copied,
  • correspondence,
  • counterpart,
  • creativeness,
  • crummy,
  • cuckoo,
  • deception,
  • deceptive,
  • decoy,
  • defraud,
  • delineation,
  • delusive,
  • derivation,
  • deriving,
  • design,
  • designing,
  • dishonest,
  • dissemble,
  • dissembling,
  • dissimulating,
  • distorted,
  • doubling,
  • duffer,
  • dumb show,
  • dupe,
  • echoing,
  • embellished,
  • embodiment,
  • embroidered,
  • empty,
  • emulate,
  • enactment,
  • engraving,
  • equal,
  • exaggeration,
  • example,
  • exchange,
  • extravaganza,
  • fabricated,
  • factitious,
  • fair copy,
  • falsification,
  • farce,
  • fashion,
  • faux,
  • favoring,
  • feign,
  • feigned,
  • feigning,
  • fictitious,
  • fictive,
  • fine arts,
  • follow,
  • following,
  • form,
  • garbled,
  • gemination,
  • ghost,
  • ghostwriter,
  • glorified,
  • glossy,
  • guide,
  • guru,
  • hoax,
  • hollow,
  • homogeneous,
  • humbug,
  • hypocritical,
  • identical,
  • identity,
  • illegitimate,
  • imagery,
  • imitate,
  • imitative,
  • impersonate,
  • imposter,
  • impostor,
  • incarnation,
  • infringement,
  • insincere,
  • iteration,
  • junk,
  • junky,
  • lampoon,
  • like,
  • likening,
  • locum tenens,
  • look-alike,
  • made-up,
  • make,
  • makeshift,
  • man-made,
  • manufactured,
  • matching,
  • mentor,
  • meretricious,
  • metonymy,
  • mime,
  • mimesis,
  • mimetic,
  • mimic,
  • mirror image,
  • miscarriage,
  • missionary,
  • mistaken,
  • mocking,
  • mold,
  • nearness,
  • off-key,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • originality,
  • painting,
  • palingenesis,
  • pantomime,
  • parallelism,
  • paraphrase,
  • parity,
  • pasquinade,
  • paste,
  • pattern,
  • perform,
  • performance,
  • performing,
  • personation,
  • personification,
  • personnel,
  • perverted,
  • phoney,
  • phony,
  • photo,
  • photocopy,
  • photography,
  • pinch,
  • pinchbeck,
  • pioneer,
  • piracy,
  • plagiarism,
  • plagiarized,
  • plaster,
  • plastic,
  • playing,
  • portrait,
  • portraiture,
  • preceptor,
  • pretence,
  • pretend,
  • pretended,
  • print,
  • propagandist,
  • provisional,
  • pseudonymous,
  • quasi,
  • quotation,
  • radiography,
  • re-creation,
  • re-formation,
  • reappearance,
  • rebirth,
  • rebuilding,
  • reconstruction,
  • recurrence,
  • redesign,
  • reduplication,
  • reecho,
  • reflect,
  • reflex,
  • regeneration,
  • regurgitation,
  • reincarnation,
  • reissue,
  • reiteration,
  • relief,
  • remaking,
  • renascence,
  • renewal,
  • renovation,
  • reorganization,
  • repetition,
  • reprint,
  • reprinting,
  • reproduce,
  • reserve,
  • reserves,
  • restoration,
  • resumption,
  • resurrection,
  • return,
  • revision,
  • revival,
  • rigged,
  • ringer,
  • sample,
  • satire,
  • sculpture,
  • secondary,
  • self-styled,
  • set up,
  • shoddy,
  • sign,
  • similar,
  • simile,
  • simulate,
  • simulated,
  • slick,
  • so-called,
  • soi-disant,
  • sour,
  • spare,
  • specious,
  • spurious,
  • squib,
  • stealing,
  • stopgap,
  • study,
  • sub,
  • substitution,
  • succedaneum,
  • succeed,
  • suffice,
  • suggestive of,
  • supplanter,
  • suppositious,
  • supposititious,
  • swindle,
  • symbol,
  • synecdoche,
  • takeoff,
  • taking,
  • temporary,
  • tentative,
  • theft,
  • thievery,
  • tin,
  • tinsel,
  • token,
  • toy,
  • tracing,
  • transcript,
  • twinning,
  • twisted,
  • unauthentic,
  • unfaithful,
  • unreal,
  • untrue,
  • usurpation,
  • utility,
  • version,
  • vicar,
  • vicarious,
  • vice president,
  • vice-regent,
  • virtual,
  • vulgarization,
  • warped,
  • whited sepulcher,
  • Aped,
  • Appropriating,
  • Ectype,
  • Electrotype,
  • Emulating,
  • Enacting,
  • Engineered,
  • Expositor,
  • Falsified,
  • Iconography,
  • Imitated,
  • Infringing,
  • Ingemination,
  • Lifting,
  • Mimicked,
  • Mimicking,
  • Mirroring,
  • Paralleling,
  • Paraphrasing,
  • Pasticcio,
  • Patterning,
  • Pirating,
  • Plagiarizing,
  • Plagiary,
  • Reestablishment,
  • Regenesis,
  • Representment,
  • Resembling,
  • Sciagraphy,
  • Titivated,
  • knockoff,
  • put on,
  • take off,
  • mock up,
  • rip off,
  • hokey,
  • certified copy,
  • Colorable,
  • Conduplication,
  • Counterfeited,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • Cribbing,
  • Purloining,
  • Substituent,
  • miming,
  • pantomiming,
  • faked,
  • representing,
  • parroting,
  • reconstitution,
  • restructuring,
  • DO,
  • SPARES,
  • reshaping,
  • refashioning,
  • manmade,
  • reoccurrence,
  • redoing,
  • reinstitution,
  • human-made,
  • put-up job,
  • redoubling,
  • queer,
  • bastard,
  • not unlike,
  • ungenuine,
  • frame-up,
  • knock-off,
  • make-believe,
  • ripoff,
  • send-up,
  • smacking of,
  • something like,
  • utility player,
  • munshi,
  • superseder.

Antonyms for Imitation:

• n.

  • cognition
    formalism.
  • Other antonyms:
    formalism, natural.