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Look up: simulacrum

  1. simulacrum
    [n] - an insubstantial or vague semblance
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Simulacrum
    a world of media-generated signs and images
    Found on http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/wps/media/obj

  3. Simulacrum
    Sim`u·la'crum noun ; plural Simulacra . [ Latin See Simulate .] A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense. « Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum Thackeray.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/105

  4. simulacrum
    noun an insubstantial or vague semblance
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Simulacrum
    • (n.) A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. simulacrum
    simulacrum 1. A representation or image of something. 2. Something which has a vague, tentative, or shadowy resemblance to something else.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  7. simulacrum
    • an insubstantial or vague semblance
    • a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

    Found on

  8. Simulacrum
    (pl. simulacra) (Lat. likeness, image) A likeness or copy of an original, applied especially to a perceptual image which copies its object. See Effluxes, Theory of. -- L.W.
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/s.html

  9. Simulacrum
    `Simulacrum` (plural: `simulacra`), from the Latin simulacrum which means "likeness, similarity", was first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god. By the late 19th century, it...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum



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