mirror image
Flipped visual copy
A mirror image is an exact copy of something with left and right reversed, as when you see yourself in a mirror.
The term extends to anything that precisely duplicates another but in opposite orientation, like text that reads backward.
Figuratively, mirror image describes two things that are strikingly similar or perfectly matched: The twins were mirror images of each other.
In genetics and chemistry, mirror image refers to molecular structures that are identical but spatially reversed.
- twinOne of matched pair
- dead ringerExact duplicate in appearance
- doppelgängerGhostly identical counterpart
- evil twinMorally inverted lookalike
- enantiomerMirror-image molecular variant
symmetry · double · likeness · handedness · reflection · through the looking glass · reverse · alter ego · chirality · stereoisomer · converse · specular · bilateral symmetry · parallel · inversion · silvered · copy · backwards
- body symmetrybilateral, radial, asymmetry, axis, midline
- symmetry typesreflection, bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry
- doppelgänger tropesevil twin, alter ego, shadow self, double, duality
- Dualityduality, dual nature, two sides, yin and yang, yin-yang
- mirror worldreflection, looking glass, doppelganger, counterpart, double
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
image, mirror, mirrors, mimicry, mirrored, mirroring, mimetic, mirrorlike, mimesis