imitation (n.)
- accordance
- acting
- adoption
- agent
- agreement
- alike
- alikeness
- alliance
- alternate
- alternative
- analogy
- aping
- approach
- appropriation
- approximation
- assimilation
- assumption
- backup
- bastard
- brummagem
- burlesque
- caricature
- change
- changeling
- characterization
- cheat
- closeness
- colored
- community
- comparability
- comparison
- conformity
- copy
- copying
- correspondence
- counterfeit
- counterpart
- deputy
- derivation
- deriving
- double
- doubling
- dummy
- duplicate
- duplication
- echo
- embodiment
- emulation
- enactment
- equal
- equivalent
- ersatz
- exchange
- facsimile
- fake
- farce
- fill-in
- following
- forgery
- frame-up
- fraud
- gemination
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- hoax
- hokey
- icon
- identity
- illegitimate
- image
- impersonation
- impostor
- impression
- incarnation
- infringement
- iteration
- junk
- junky
- knockoff
- lampoon
- like
- likeness
- likening
- make-believe
- makeshift
- masquerade
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mimesis
- mimicry
- mock
- mock-up
- mockery
- mocking
- model
- nearness
- palingenesis
- pantomime
- parallelism
- paraphrase
- parity
- parody
- paste
- pastiche
- performance
- performing
- personation
- personification
- personnel
- phony
- picture
- pinch
- pinchbeck
- plagiarism
- playing
- portrait
- portrayal
- posing
- proxy
- pseudo
- put-on
- queer
- quotation
- re-creation
- re-formation
- reappearance
- rebirth
- rebuilding
- reconstruction
- recurrence
- reduplication
- regeneration
- regurgitation
- reincarnation
- reissue
- reiteration
- relief
- remaking
- renascence
- renewal
- renovation
- reorganization
- repetition
- replacement
- replica
- replication
- representation
- representative
- reprinting
- reproduction
- resemblance
- reserve
- reserves
- restoration
- resumption
- resurrection
- return
- revision
- revival
- ringer
- rip-off
- sameness
- satire
- secondary
- semblance
- sham
- shoddy
- sign
- similarity
- simile
- similitude
- simulacrum
- simulation
- spare
- squib
- stand-in
- stopgap
- sub
- substitute
- substitution
- succedaneum
- supplanter
- surrogate
- swindle
- symbol
- synecdoche
- synthetic
- takeoff
- taking
- temporary
- tin
- tinsel
- token
- travesty
- understudy
- utility
- version
- vicar
- vice-regent
imitation (adj.)
- acting
- affected
- agreement
- alike
- alternate
- alternative
- aped
- aping
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assumed
- bastard
- bogus
- brummagem
- burlesque
- change
- clinquant
- colored
- counterfeit
- distorted
- double
- dummy
- duplicate
- embellished
- equal
- equivalent
- ersatz
- factitious
- fake
- false
- feigned
- fictitious
- fictive
- following
- forged
- garbled
- hokey
- homogeneous
- identical
- illegitimate
- like
- make-believe
- makeshift
- man-made
- mock
- mocking
- model
- performance
- personnel
- perverted
- phony
- pinchbeck
- plagiarized
- playing
- posing
- pretended
- provisional
- pseudo
- quasi
- queer
- representative
- secondary
- self-styled
- sham
- shoddy
- sign
- similar
- simulated
- so-called
- soi-disant
- spare
- spurious
- substitute
- supposititious
- surrogate
- synthetic
- taking
- temporary
- tentative
- tin
- token
- twinning
- twisted
- unauthentic
- unnatural
- unreal
- utility
- vicarious
- warped
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
