mimeme
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A unit of mimetic information.
Example Sentences
- "Speech learning is a mimetic process. The linguistic signal is a ‘mimeme’."
- "Language depends on mimism – the repercussion, in the composition of an individual’s gestures, of ocular mimemes – which takes two forms: phonomimism and cinemimism."
- "The process of miming however, mimage, is a conscientizing process: the cosmos plays into the anthropos, and, [born] mimer, the anthropos replays its actions in mimemes or mimismic gestures.” These mimemes, and their expression, gestes, are therefore always potentially conscious, and memory, being the sum of our mimemes, is replay, anthropological replay, and therefore always with a degree of consciousness. Through mimage, actions that became mimemes are expressed as gestes:[…]"
- "In the words of Jean-Marie Schaeffer, a fiction “should be announced as fiction, the function of this announcement being to institute the pragmatic frame that limits the space of the game at the interior of which the semblance can operate without representation induced by the mimemes being treated in the same manner as would be the ‘real’ representations mimed by the fictional device.”"
Etymology
Anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). By surface analysis, mime + -eme.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: μῑμέομαι