IMITATION Antonyms

• having the ability or power to create

• promoting construction or creation

• not fake or counterfeit

• not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed

• being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something

• ahead of the times

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

• no less than what is stated; worthy of the name

• of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation

• having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary

• any rational or irrational number

• the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos

• an old small silver Spanish coin

• used to give emphasis

• not to be taken lightly

• capable of being treated as fact

• being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something

• (of property) fixed or immovable

• coinciding with reality

• radically distinctive and without equal

• (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality

• the single one of its kind

• highly unusual or rare but not the single instance

• the human act of creating

• (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence

• an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone

• the event that occurred at the beginning of something

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• everything that exists anywhere

• the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications

• the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms