Impersonation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impersonation \Im*per`son*a"tion\, Impersonification
  \Im`per*son`i*fi*ca"tion\, n.
     The act of impersonating; personification; investment with
     personality; representation in a personal form.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impersonation
       n 1: a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic
            effect [syn: {caricature}, {imitation}]
       2: pretending to be another person [syn: {imposture}]
       3: imitating the mannerisms of another person [syn: {personation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "impersonation":
     acting, aping, buffoonery, business, characterization, copying,
     counterfeiting, dumb show, embodiment, emulation, enacting,
     enactment, fakery, following, forgery, gag, ham, hammy acting,
     hit-off, hoke, hokum, imitation, imposture, impression,
     incarnation, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming,
     mirroring, mummery, onomatopoeia, overacting, pantomime,
     pantomiming, parody, patter, performance, performing, personation,
     personification, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, playing,
     portrayal, posing, projection, repetition, representation,
     simulation, slapstick, stage business, stage directions,
     stage presence, stunt, takeoff, taking a role