SIMULACRUM


Meaning of SIMULACRUM in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But Lodge's Rummidge, that reductive simulacrum of Birmingham, was too obviously a conceit for his fictional games.

For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image, there being no true face behind the mask.

From the first, our face is a simulacrum , captured in and by the image.

His outer housing alone presented astonishing simulacrum in the relaxed pose of the back and shoulders, the realistic voicings.

Lit in this way a room is a simulacrum of a dream world.

Now that's the kind of hyperreal simulacrum I'd have paid good money to watch.

Put simply, a simulacrum is an identical copy without an original.

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