imitancyEtymologyFrom Latin imitāns, present participle of imitō.imitancy means tendency to imitation. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.nounTendency to imitation.“Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler relationship and mysterious union to one another which lies in such imitancy, of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure (itself nowise original) of a Flock of Sheep.”