If Imitation Is The Best Form of Flattery...What Is Jealousy?

Answer 1

If ur imitation causes jealousy it means ur flattery has succeeded.
The comparison difficult because they r not parallels or opposites.They may be compared only in case of some particular situations, and that too more like an action and result sort of a thing. Any situation involving the first statement may be taken as example.
I may put it as; if imitation is the cause then jealousy is the effect. Only when ur question is considered. This means there is no generalized answer to ur question it can be only situational. As far as I know.

Answer 2

Imitation isn't the BEST form of flattery... it's the SINCEREST. And there's a big difference between the two.

It's sincerest because it's one thing to say that you like what another has done, but to imitate it is to suggest that it's good enough for yourself; perhaps that you can't do better.

Jealousy, on the other hand, is an emotion, not an action. Jealousy could drive someone to imitate, or not to imitate. Or any number of other permutations. Usually jealousy is a form of territoriality; a feeling of being threatened. A competition with a rival. You aren't jealous of someone who doesn't threaten you, nor are you jealous if you have nothing to lose.

An emotion more closely tied to flattery might be envy. While jealousy involves keeping what you see as yours, envy involves wanting what you see as not yours. This requires an implicit acknowledgement that someone else is doing better than you - good grounds, perhaps, for flattery and imitation both.

At least that's the way -I- see it. Peace.

Answer 3

Imitation isn't necessarily the best, but rather the sincerest form of flattery. I've heard lots o' flattery that was better than any imitation out there.

Why does jealousy have to be anything more than what it is: Self-loathing caused by focusing on those who have traits, friends, family and/or possessions that we feel are lacking in our own lives?

Answer 4

After-math of Flattery .. when imitator turns out be better than
imitated . And mind you , it not always the imitated who feels jealous. It is those followers who had bet on the wrong horse and can do nothing now .

Answer 5

Oh well, I shan't look at the answers, that are all possibly better than this one will be. The response to imitation can be so varied. I have a friend who tells me her friend "copies" everything she does, wears, buys, etc., & this irritates her horribly. She assumes her friend hasn't got a mind of her own. When I was twenty, a co-worker came in wearing this BEAUTIFUL dress, & while I'd never done anything like this before, I got one like it, but in a different colour. She wouldn't speak to me for days, & many years later, told me she felt like a "fool" because I looked so much better in it than she did, she was forty. I certainly never thought it would be hurtful! Yet, if someone were to "imitate" something I wore, etc., I'd be pleased, not flattered. I'd just think, "Wow, they must really like it!" As for jealousy--from what I've seen in my long journey, it's simple. Insecurity. Now I'll look at the other answers!

Answer 6

Imitation is not the best form of flattery, it's a danger of stagnation. Jealousy is a feeling that occurs when subject lacks own business. Unflattering for subject, indifferent to object of desire.

Answer 7

1) Of course not. Imitation is the best way to let people know that you are just a follower, also know as a loser.Nobody appreciate an ***-kisser, but they will, instead, recognize the nobility of being yourself, another human being with her own emotions and situations just like everybody else. If you want to impress someone do it naturally, without pomposity,make them aware of your talents, your creativity, your compassion.
If you choose to be a plastic, artificial person even after these humble words that try to form an advice, there's no much more i can tell you except for this last bit : ' you can't fool everybody all the time'
2)
Jealousy is the insecurity that people feel fed partly by the lack of experience factor and lack of confidence, self worth as well.
Is outgrowbable (did i just make a new word, lol). Be aware that it could also be a need that you might have to totally be in Control -yes, with capital C- over people and things, that being probably the most dangerous and destructive one. Denial of this, also, is a frequent prognosis and if you suspect that is the case, before too late i recommendt professional help, but that is , of course just an opinion that deals with an extreme circunstance.

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Answer 8

Jealousy....there's a word formed from sour grapes. It's a feeling of discontent and anger; selfishness and criticism. The first crime on Earth was over jealousy. Remember Cain and Abel? So, to answer your question, jealousy is worst form of discontent.

Answer 9

Jealousy tries to own the very thing one is imitating.

Answer 10

I think I am jealous of your gf/bf. Does that come as a flattery ?