imitation vs wittiness

wittiness vs imitation

imitation and wittiness both are nouns.

imitation is an adjective but wittiness is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
imitation	Yes	Yes	No	No
wittiness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wittiness is a hypernym of imitation; that is, wittiness is a word with a broader meaning than imitation:

imitation: a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
wittiness: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Other hypernyms of imitation include humor, humour, wit, witticism.

imitation (noun)	wittiness (noun)
copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else	The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious.
something copied or derived from an original	a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

imitation (adjective)	wittiness (adjective)
not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

Difference between imitation and wittiness

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