simulism

English

Noun

simulism (uncountable)

1. (rare, formal) A tendency to be similar; resemblance.
   • 1946, Leaflets of Western Botany, volumes 4-5, page 6:

     The arrangement of leaves in E. cæspitosum and E. Ripleyi is quite different, but since both species are depressed dwarfs with much-condensed habits, the divergence in this character is almost concealed under a marked habital simulism.