simulacrumсуществительное An image or representation of someone or something. The wax museum featured a simulacrum of the famous actor, so lifelike that visitors often mistook it for the real person.
An unsatisfactory imitation or substitute. The new theme park was criticized as a simulacrum of the original, lacking the charm and authenticity of the first.
In post-modern philosophy, a copy or image that becomes reality in its own right, often obscuring or replacing the original it imitates. According to Baudrillard, the televised war was a simulacrum, experienced by millions only through screens rather than on the battlefield.