similitude

Etymology

From Old French.

noun

1. (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
   Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon. 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
2. (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
   Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon. 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
3. (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
   If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude, in the garden. 1852, Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
4. A parable or allegory.