quote vs mimesis

quote and mimesis both are nouns.

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

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

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

quote (noun)	mimesis (noun)
a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else	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
	any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease

quote (verb)	mimesis (verb)
repeat a passage from
refer to for illustration or proof
put quote marks around
name the price of