Preposition: of

• reality: It is more difficult to create a convincing digital simulacrum of reality than it is to create a reality that only exists digitally.

Converse of object

• create: It is more difficult to create a convincing digital simulacrum of reality than it is to create a reality that only exists digitally.

• present: If you present a simulacrum of a 17th century performance to a 20th century audience, what response do you get?

• produce: Darwinian natural selection, although it involves no true design at all, can produce an uncanny simulacrum of true design.

Adjective modifier

• digital: It is more difficult to create a convincing digital simulacrum of reality than it is to create a reality that only exists digitally.

• convincing: Among the trees, girls dance in a not completely convincing simulacrum of wild abandon.

• mere: Perhaps most of us are well aware that, in this age of infotainment, politics is a mere simulacrum of politics.

• pure: It bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is its own pure simulacrum.