mirror image

noun

1. an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
2. an object having a spatial arrangement that corresponds to that of another object except that the right-to-left sense on one object corresponds to the left-to-right sense on the other.

mirror image

noun

1. an image as observed in a mirror
2. an object that corresponds to another object in the same way as it would correspond to its image in a mirror

Word History and Origins

Origin of mirror image¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Appearing in the episode’s cold open as the mirror image of Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee reassured herself that “You can do something your opponent cannot do: You can open doors.”

From Los Angeles Times

Each performance is a mirror image.

From Salon

In many ways, it was a mirror image of President Biden’s massive failure of a debate against Trump months earlier.

From Salon

These Chargers are truly a mirror image of the smart and sturdy Harbaugh, who they hired in the winter after he won a national championship at the University of Michigan.

From Los Angeles Times

Hayek, the more famous of the two, described himself as a pragmatist and empiricist, but, as is common in the transmission of ideas, his followers dogmatized his theories to the point where they became a materialist religion, a mirror image of Marxist-Leninism.

From Salon

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