advergence

Etymology
for the paper "Parallelism, convergence, divergence, and the new concept of advergence in the evolution of mimicry" on the pattern of, substituting for  to emphasize the one-sidedness of the approach. Borrowed into linguistics by Peter Auer in 1998. , from, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  The evolution of a mimic to resemble its model more closely.
 * 2)  The evolution of a dialect to resemble the standard language more closely.