resemblance vs similarity

resemblance

noun
  • The quality or state of resembling. 

  • Probability; verisimilitude. 

  • A comparison; a simile. 

  • That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. 

similarity

noun
  • Closeness of appearance to something else. 

  • A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances 

  • The property of two matrices being similar. 

  • The relation of sharing properties. 

How often have the words resemblance and similarity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )