counterimitate
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counterimitate (third-person singular simple present counterimitates, present participle counterimitating, simple past and past participle counterimitated)
- To react to another person by refraining from doing what they do; to deliberately not imitate.
- 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
- The pressures of status give every individual a set of conflicting demands: imitate the group norms, counterimitate rivals, emulate superiors but not too obviously, and be unique but not too unique.