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Simulacrum
Simulacrum meaning
A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing. | A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation; a semblance.
Example sentences (9)
Tourists may be happy to contribute to the city’s upkeep but many locals see the move as a step towards the transformation of Venice into a Veniceland, a Disneylike simulacrum.
The entire financial system–nothing but an elaborate simulacrum of a real-world financial system.
Sports is a simulacrum of real life; the drama works t hook us in. This six-page piece is evidence of that.
But of course, it’s a simulacrum.
I’m a simulacrum, a cardboard cut-out trudging woodenly through the city.
It's a gorgeous little simulacrum!
While Bullock and Blanchett get the meat of the script to work with, surprisingly it’s Hathaway who slinks off with the entire movie — in part because she gets to play a glamorous, soulless simulacrum of herself.
Baudrillard wrote in "Precession of the Simulacra": ::The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
Charyn (2006), p. 106. Estella Tincknell notes that while the "diner setting seems to be a simulacrum of a 'fifties' restaurant.