English to Afrikaans Meaning of simulacrum - simulacrum

Simulacrum :

simulacrum

noun

verpersoonliking, beeld, gelykenis, Present, harmonie, ooreenstemming, analogie, parallelisme, wimpel, vlag, banier, standaard

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Definitions of simulacrum in English

Noun(1) an insubstantial or vague semblance(2) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture

Examples of simulacrum in English

(1) Painted kite tails, assemblages, photo and film documentation, and an electronic simulacrum of kite-flying were recently on view in a New York gallery(2) a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper(3) But then along comes a texture, timbre or pattern that is simply too frog-like or insect-like to be dismissed as a mere electronic simulacrum .(4) How it must wound the director to hear these words in Hollywood, on a mere back-lot simulacrum of New York - and from his own ex-wife!(5) Unlike France, the United States has never had a publicly defined national curriculum - although we seem to have allowed private enterprise to define a thoroughly unsatisfactory simulacrum of one.(6) With surgery, he makes clear, one becomes merely a simulacrum or copy; true identity is masked with the inevitable result that one is, ultimately, inauthentic.(7) Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum .(8) a bland simulacrum of American soul music(9) A buffalo skull tucked in the corner compresses the painting's message into a single object, a simulacrum for the Old West.(10) Anything for a ├ö├ç├┐feel good├ö├ç├û image, for a simulacrum , in these postmodern times(11) They are pop cultural simulacra , mere shadows of Cagney's tragic anti-hero and Marlon Brando's brooding Don.(12) They are mere simulacra , which replace real things and their actual relationships (only truly known to those on the left, who see through such illusions) in a process which Baudrillard calls hyperrealization.(13) Despite the obvious codes of virtuality at play, of simulation and simulacra , the image works.(14) Heavily shaped by the generation of the 1960s, most of us may become mere simulacrums of our mentors.

(1) simply beautiful ::

net mooi

(2) simply put ::

eenvoudig gestel

(3) quite simply ::

eenvoudig

(4) live simply ::

leef eenvoudig

(5) put simply ::

sit bloot

(6) not simply ::

nie net

(7) simply constructed ::

eenvoudig gebou

(8) simply equipped ::

eenvoudig toegeruste

Synonyms

Noun

1. image ::

beeld

2. effigy ::

effigy

Different Forms

simulacrum, simulacrums

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