quotation vs mimesis

quotation and mimesis both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quotation	Yes	No	No	No
mimesis	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mimesis is a hyponym of quotation; that is, mimesis is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than quotation:

Other hyponyms of quotation include epigraph, misquotation, misquote, agraphon.

quotation (noun)	mimesis (noun)
the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.	the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature
a passage or expression that is quoted or cited	the representation of another person's words in a speech
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage	any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease
a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity