English

Noun

imitancy ‎(uncountable)

1. Tendency to imitation.
   • 1832 Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson

     Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler relationship and mysterious union to one another which lies in such imitancy, of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure (itself nowise original) of a Flock of Sheep.