mirroring

English

Verb

mirroring

  1. present participle and gerund of mirror

Noun

mirroring (plural mirrorings)

  1. A reflection or inversion.
    • 2010, Joseph Farrell, Michael C. J. Putnam, A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition, page 183:
      Spenser has an intimate feel for Vergilian intratextuality, the mirrorings and repetitions that create patterns of likeness and difference, reaching over the whole text and linking images, motifs, and persons.
  2. (psychology) The behavior in which one person consciously or subconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of another.

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