wittiness vs imitation

imitation vs wittiness

wittiness and imitation both are nouns.

wittiness is not an adjective while imitation is an adjective.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of wittiness include jeu d'esprit, bon mot, mot, esprit de l'escalier, bite, pungency, caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire, repartee, gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh, caricature, impersonation, cartoon, sketch, fun, play, sport, ribaldry, topper, absurdist humor, absurdist humour, surreal humor, surreal humour.

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

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

Difference between wittiness and imitation

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