Copies or mimics someone else's actions, speech, or style; recreates something to look or sound like something else.
From Latin 'imitari.' The word has meant 'to copy' since ancient Roman times and appears in Cicero's writings about rhetoric and art.
Humans are such compulsive imitators that babies start copying faces within hours of birth—mirror neurons in our brains automatically fire when we see actions, which is why yawns are contagious and why imitation is literally built into our neurology!
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