[syn: impersonation, personation]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
impersonation
n 1: a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic
effect [syn: caricature, imitation, impersonation]
2: pretending to be another person [syn: imposture,
impersonation]
3: imitating the mannerisms of another person [syn:
impersonation, personation]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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