different between mockery vs mimicry

English

Etymology

From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Byzantine Greek ????? (m?kós, “mocker”), perhaps from Arabic ?????????? (al-makru, “guile, cunning”). Equivalent to mock +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?k??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?k??i/

Noun

mockery (countable and uncountable, plural mockeries)

1. The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
2. Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
3. (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
4. Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

   The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

Usage notes

• We often use make a mockery of someone or something, meaning to mock them. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ridicule

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• mimickry

Etymology

From mimic +? -ry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?m.?k.?i/

Noun

mimicry (countable and uncountable, plural mimicries)

1. The act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else.

   They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.

   When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch.

Translations

See also

• crypsis
• imitation
• mimicry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia