Do you use real or ____ vanilla in your baking?

noun

1. An act or instance of imitating
2. Something produced as a copy counterfeit
3. A literary work designed to reproduce the style of another author
4. The repetition by one voice of a melody, phrase, or motive stated earlier in the composition by a different voice
5. The quality of an object in possessing some of the nature or attributes of a transcendent idea
6. The assumption of behavior observed in other individuals

adjective

1. Resembling something else that is usually genuine and of better quality not real

   "imitation leather"

noun

1. An inferior version

   "The remake of the movie was a pale imitation of the original."