This article is about the term. For the album by John Zorn, see Simulacrum (album). Image of a real apple (left), and plastic food model apple (right). The fake apple is a simulacrum. A simulacrum (pl.: simulacra or simulacrums, from Latin simulacrum, meaning "likeness, semblance") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.[1] The word was first recorded in the English language in the
